Before launching interventions to improve interprofessional collaboration in hospitals, leaders should conduct baseline assessments, an expert says. Hospitalists and nurses working on general medical ...

Providing optimal healthcare requires an interprofessional (IP) team-based approach. For patients and families with special healthcare needs, increased complexity and frequency of care necessitates ...

The Office of Interprofessional and Continuing Education aims to educate students on how to provide patient-centered care through a multi-discipline approach to build trusting patient-provider ...

Teamwork is important to providing safe and effective care for hospitalized patients with cancer; however, few studies have evaluated teamwork in this setting. We surveyed all nurses, residents, ...

A culture of strong teamwork benefits both patients and staff, acclaimed chief nurse says. Inadequate nurse-physician interaction and communication is one of the risk points affecting patient safety, ...

This innovative course gives health profession students a first-hand experience of the challenges of teamwork in clinical care by bringing them together to collaboratively plan patient's care. The ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Hudson Garrett Jr In the ...