Redefining the Team in Team-Based Care

A team-building model for team-based care.

Collaboration in Practice: Implementing Team-Based Care.

Logan Wright Award: Team science, team care, team training, and team leadership: my experience.

I worked in a basic science biology laboratory throughout my undergraduate years. But I was not trained in genomics, systems biology, neurophysiology, or modern molecular aspects of medicine. I conducted behavioral intervention studies for my master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation (Powers, Blount, Bachanas, Cotter, & Swan, 1993; Powers & Roberts, 1995). But I did not learn about the phases o...

Championing truly collaborative team-based care.

As the nation works toward improving health care delivery models, the concept of team-based care has become more pronounced. Thus, defining it is important, as the position paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) does in this issue (1). That said, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) disputes many of the principles that the ACP outlines—first and foremost, the over...

Guiding Principles for Team-Based Pediatric Care.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recognizes that children's unique and ever-changing needs depend on a variety of support systems. Key components of effective support systems address the needs of the child and family in the context of their home and community and are dynamic so that they reflect, monitor, and respond to changes as the needs of the child and family change. The AAP believ...