The purpose of this study is to compare the diagnostic decision-making of individual healthcare practitioners against that of a transdisciplinary team. Despite national recognition of transdisciplinary assessment as the gold standard diagnostic approach, autism is most frequently diagnosed by individuals working independently in a variety of disciplines. The current study examined how closely t...

Virtual project teams are spontaneous group configurations that endeavor to overcome spatial and temporal restrictions in bringing together distant experts to create just-in-time knowledge sharing coalitions. Due to their time-constrained nature and anonymity among members, we argue for team goal commitment as a more pertinent factor driving task performance. We then hypothesize that members’ p...

Most of research is completed through a research team where team members’ expertise and knowledge complement with each other. In academic contexts, research project generally involve the establishment of multi-disciplinary and competent research teams to simultaneously consider various activities throughout the entire research project. To ensure a successful research team, it is important to un...

OBJECTIVE To test the validity, reliability and discriminating capacity of an instrument to assess team climate, the Team Climate Inventory (TCI), in a sample of Dutch hospital teams. The TCI is based on a four-factor theory of team climate for innovation. DESIGN Validation study. SETTING Hospital teams in The Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 424 healthcare professionals; 355 nurses working in 2...

Title of Document: THE INFLUENCE OF COLLECTIVE WORKING MEMORY STRATEGIES ON AGENT TEAMS Ransom Kershaw Winder, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Professor James A. Reggia Department of Computer Science Past self-organizing models of collectively moving “particles” (simulated bird flocks, fish schools, etc.) typically have been based on purely reflexive agents that have no significant memo...

Many of the activities performed in rms are done by teams, where a common output is observed but outsiders cannot observe the individual contributions of each team member. This leads to the possibility of some of the members of the team free-riding on the contributions of others. Repeated interactions of a team can then potentially lead to cooperation among the members of the team under the cre...

Working-from-home arrangements have become increasingly important for firms’ work organization. In this context, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to teams that previously did not virtually being forced interact and communicate virtually. study, we analyze changes in intra-team communication of four a German medium-sized enterprise. Quantitative network analyses email qualitative interviews before ...

BACKGROUND Several countries have co-located General Practitioners (GPs) in Primary Care Centres (PCCs) with other health and social care professionals in order to improve integrated care. It is not clear whether the co-location of a multidisciplinary team actually facilitates a positive patient experience concerning GP care. The aim of this study was to verify whether the co-location of GPs in...