The delivery of health care by a coordinated team of individuals has always been assumed to be a good thing. Patients reap the benefits of more eyes and ears, the insights of different bodies of knowledge, and a wider range of skills. Thus team care has generally been embraced by most as a criterion for high quality care. Despite its appeal, team care, especially in the primary care setting, re...

BACKGROUND Patient-centred care, access to care, and continuity of and coordination of care are core processes in primary health care delivery. Our objective was to evaluate how these processes are enacted by 1 primary care model, Family Health Teams, in Ontario. METHODS Our study used grounded theory methodology to examine these 4 processes of care from the perspective of health care provide...

study of patient teaching importance from point of views   in azad university nursing students in karaj in 1382     m. gotlarzi [1] , m.s m.a. ahmadvand [2] , m.d m.farajollahi [3] m.d     abstract:     introduction: large multicenter trials have been shown that patients training are very important in reduction of patients stay in hospital and recurent addmission ‑ cost of treatment and prevent...

BACKGROUND The number of people with multiple chronic conditions increases as a result of ageing. To deal with the complex health-care needs of these patients, it is important that health-care professionals collaborate in interprofessional teams. To deliver patient-centred care, it is often recommended to include the patient as a member of the team. OBJECTIVE To gain more insight into how hea...

background: the former studies and observations indicate that medical students vary considerably in their attitudes towards patients and health care personal. objectives: to study the attitude of clerkship students towards selected types of patient and selected types of health care personnel. methods: a quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted among clerkship students.the subjects recei...

VLIET VLIELAND P.M.T. (2003) Journal of Advanced Nursing 41(1), 34–43 Two-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial of a clinical nurse specialist intervention, inpatient, and day patient team care in rheumatoid arthritis Aim. To compare the long-term effectiveness of care delivered by a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) with inpatient team care and day patient team care in patients with rh...

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of a low-resource-demand, easily disseminated computer-based teamwork process training intervention on teamwork behaviors and patient care performance in code teams. DESIGN A randomized comparison trial of computer-based teamwork training versus placebo training was conducted from August 2010 through March 2011. SETTING This study was conducted at the simu...

Introduction: Fragmentation of healthcare poses a threat to patient safety, and leads to inefficient care 1 . Several studies have demonstrated the usefulness of checklists to improve the quality of care such as increasing treatment compliance and reducing complications and medical errors in the clinical setting 2,3 . In the current model of care, however, physicians and nurses have separate pa...

Teaching and learning in the ambulatory setting have been described as inefficient, variable, and unpredictable. A model of ambulatory teaching that was piloted in three settings (1973-1981 in a university-affiliated outpatient clinic in Portland, Oregon, 1996-2000 in a community outpatient clinic, and 2000-2001 in an outpatient clinic serving Dartmouth Medical School's teaching hospital) that ...