Primary Care and Public Health Services Integration in Brazil’s Unified...
We examined associations between transdisciplinary collaboration, evidence-based practice, and primary care and public health services integration in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy. We aimed to...
View ArticleTeamwork and Patient Safety in Dynamic Domains of Healthcare: A Review of the...
This review examines current research on teamwork in highly dynamic domains of healthcare such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency medicine, or trauma and resuscitation teams with a focus on...
View ArticleTeamwork in Healthcare: Promoting Effective Teamwork in Healthcare in Canada....
To prepare this report, an interprofessional research team conducted in-depth interviews with key informants and undertook a wide-ranging survey of peer-reviewed and grey literature on the components...
View ArticleAn Intervention to Enhance Nursing Staff Teamwork and Engagement
In this study, an intervention to enhance teamwork and staff engagement was tested on a medical unit in an acute care hospital. The results showed that the intervention resulted in a significantly...
View ArticleEvaluating the Effectiveness of Health Care Teams
While it is recognised that effective health care teams are associated with quality patient care, the literature is comparatively sparse in defining the outcomes of effective teamwork. This literature...
View ArticleInterprofessional Collaborative Teams
This paper aims to explore and explain the use of models of care delivery that optimally utilize the role of nurses in primary healthcare, community-based care and other non-acute care contexts such as...
View ArticleMedical Teamwork and Patient Safety: The Evidence-Based Relation
The science of team performance and training can help the medical community improve patient safety. This report, commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), assesses the...
View ArticlePatient Safety Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools
The WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools, published in 2009 aims to encourage and facilitate the teaching of patient safety topics to medical students.
View ArticleThe Role of the District Family Physician
District clinical specialist teams were formed in 2012. One member of the team is the family physician. The role of the district family physician is discussed and the case made for focusing on the...
View ArticleModels for Primary Eye Care Services in India
Blindness and visual impairment continues to be a major public health problem in India. Availability and easy access to primary eye care services is essential for elimination of avoidable blindness. In...
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