Clinical leaders crossing boundaries: A study on the role of clinical leadership in crossing boundaries between specialties.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the growing number of complex (multimorbid) patients, integrating and coordinating care across medical specialties around patient needs is an urgent theme in current health care. Clinical leadership plays an important role in stimulating coordination both within and between specialty groups, which results in better outcomes in terms of job satisfaction and quality of care.

Purpose

In this light, this study aims to understand the relation between physicians' clinical leadership and outcomes, focusing on the sequential mediation of relationships and coordination with physicians within their own medical specialty group and from other specialties.

Methodology

A cross-sectional self-administered survey among physicians in a Dutch hospital (n = 107) was co

SUBMITTER: Braam A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10635562 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature