For 30 years, effective teamwork has been touted as a means to achieving superior
outcomes, better patient satisfaction, improved staff morale, and cost containment. Most …

Background Current recommendations for strengthening the US healthcare system consider
restructuring primary care into multidisciplinary teams as vital to improving quality and …

Background Inter-professional teamwork in primary care settings offers potential benefits for
responding to the increasing complexity of patients' needs. While it is a central element in …

Healthcare leaders and managers have only an emerging understanding of how to create
high-functioning primary care teams. Management scholars have researched and debated …

Methods A phenomenological qualitative approach was used for this study. We conducted
semi-structured interviews with 121 health care professionals from 16 PHCTs (10 urban and …

Despite growing emphasis on adopting team-based models of primary care to facilitate
patient access to a diverse range of care providers, our understanding of team functioning …

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe practices that support collaboration in
interprofessional primary health care teams, and identify performance indicators perceived …

Introduction: Primary care is changing to a team-based model. A number of high-performing
primary-care practices in the United States have succeeded in making the transition to team …

Primary health care is undergoing significant organizational change, including the
development of interdisciplinary health care teams. Understanding how teams function …

In health care settings, individuals from different disciplines come together to care for
patients. Although these groups of health care personnel are generally called teams, they …