Optimizing Huddle Engagement Through Leadership and Problem Solving Within Primary Care: Results from a Cluster-Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Leaders play a crucial role in implementing and sustaining changes in clinical practice, yet there is limited evidence on the strategies to engage them in team problem solving and communication.

Objective

Examine the impact of an intervention focused on facilitating leadership during daily huddles on optimizing team-based care and improving outcomes.

Design

Cluster-randomized trial using intention-to-treat analysis to measure the effects of the intervention (n = 13 teams) compared with routine practice (n = 16 teams).

Participants

Twenty-nine primary care clinics affiliated with a large integrated health system in the upper Midwest; representing differing practice types and geographic settings.

Intervention

Full-day leadership training retreat

SUBMITTER: Lampman MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8342734 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature