Poor team work is killing patients

Poor team work is killing patients.

News The health secretary, Alan Mil-burn, vowed last week to press ahead with reforms in the health service and to use money promised in the consultants' contract to buy more of doctors' time for the NHS. Speaking in front of the health select committee, Mr Milburn told ministers that the £250m ($400m; 390m) promised in the proposed contract for consultants and " liberated " by the doctors' rej...

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Predictors of Team Work Satisfaction

The ability to work in teams is an attribute highly valued by employers of information technology (IT) graduates. For IT students to effectively engage in team work tasks, the process of working in teams should be satisfying for the students. This work explored whether university students who were involved in compulsory team work were satisfied with their experience. The research was seeking pr...

Gender differences in team work and team competition

We study whether the gender performance gap is affected by the gender composition of teams. A real-effort experiment is employed with wages based either on the team’s performance, or on the outcome of a competition between teams. We find that, relative to a single-sex environment, gender diversity increases the gender performance gap with team pay whereas it decreases the gap with team competit...

Community contributions to a FHU team work.

Considering the importance of people participating in the construction of new health models, this study aimed to characterize and analyze contributions brought by community to health actions carried out in a Family Health Unit. It is a documentary analysis based on the records of 24 monthly meetings between the team and community. After reading the records, subject was divided into four themes:...