Background: The increase in prevalence of long-term conditions in Western societies, with the subsequent need for non-acute quality patient healthcare, has brought the issue of collaboration between health professionals to the fore. Within primary care, it has been suggested that multidisciplinary teamworking is essential to develop an integrated approach to promoting and maintaining the health...

Flexible teamwork in real-world multi-agent domains is more than a union of agents’ simultaneous execution of individual plans, even if such execution pre-coordinated. Indeed, uncertainties in complex, dynamic domains often obstruct pre-planned coordination, with a resultant breakdown in teamwork. The central hypothesis in this paper is that for durable teamwork, agents should be provided expli...

Planning for ad hoc teamwork is challenging because it involves agents collaborating without any prior coordination or communication. The focus is on principled methods for a single agent to cooperate with others. This motivates investigating the ad hoc teamwork problem in the context of individual decision making frameworks. However, individual decision making in multiagent settings faces the ...

Cyber analysis is a complex task that requires the coordination of a large sociotechnical system of human analysts working together with technology. Adequate situation awareness of such a complex system requires more than aggregate situation awareness of individuals. Teamwork in the form of communication and information coordination is at the heart of team-level situation awareness. In this pos...

BACKGROUND Teamwork is a critical component during critical events. Assessment is mandatory for remediation and to target training programmes for observed performance gaps. METHODS The primary purpose was to test the feasibility of team-based self-monitoring of crisis resource management with a validated teamwork assessment tool. A secondary purpose was to assess item-specific reliability and...

Previous research on civil aircraft inspection and maintenance has shown the important role teamwork plays in completing aircraft inspection/maintenance tasks. Hence, it is necessary to develop team training tools for aircraft maintenance technicians (AMT) to enhance team skills and team performance within the aircraft inspection/maintenance environment. In response to this need, this paper des...

Assembly lines are the most commonly used method for a mass production environment. Their main purpose is to increase efficiency by maximizing the ratio between throughput and required costs. However, in the last few decades, market demands have changed enormously. The emphasis is now on shorter lead times, larger product variety, higher quality and more customized options. At the same time, so...

Aims. To critically review educational research describing nursing teamwork competency development and to synthesize these findings in determining what teachinglearning components best promote the evolution of competent nursing teamwork. Background. Since the Institute of Medicine (2000) recommended enhancing coordination and communication abilities of healthcare teams, many educational initiat...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the ways in which nursing and medical students perceive and understand their roles in interprofessional teamwork. A 2010 report by the World Health Organization highlights the importance of students' understanding of teamwork in healthcare, and their ability to be effective team players. This study aims at describing nursing and medical students' perceptions of ...