Purposeful interprofessional team intervention improves relational coordination among advanced heart failure care teams.

ABSTRACT: Effective delivery of healthcare is highly interdependent within and between interprofessional (IP) care teams and the patients they serve. This is particularly true for complex health conditions such as advanced heart failure (AHF). Our Academic Practice Partnership received funding to carry out IP workforce development with inpatient AHF care teams. Our objectives were to (a) identify challenges in team functioning that affected communication and relationships among the AHF care teams, (b) collaboratively identify a focal work process in need of improvement, and (c) test whether facilitated the implementation of team training and work process changes would lead to improvements in team communication, relationships, and process outcomes. The health-care team identified implementation of st

SUBMITTER: Abu-Rish Blakeney E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599724 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature