Repeated, Close Physician Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Teams Associated with Greater Teamwork.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether observed patterns of physician interaction around shared patients are associated with higher levels of teamwork as perceived by physicians.

Data sources/study setting

Michigan Medicare beneficiaries who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures at 24 hospitals in the state between 2008 and 2011.

Study design

We assessed hospital teamwork using the teamwork climate scale in the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. After aggregating across CABG discharges at these hospitals, we mapped the physician referral networks (including both surgeons and nonsurgeons) that served them and measured three network properties: (1) reinforcement, (2) clustering, and (3) density. We then used multilevel regression models to identify associatio

SUBMITTER: Everson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867088 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature