Team approach in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in
providing quality patient care. This approach is supported by a growing research evidence …

OBJECTIVES The authors studied influence of physician leaders on their colleagues'
performance using data from a randomized, controlled trial of quality assurance …

Physician group practices in the US have grown and changed significantly in terms of health
professional team composition, employment contract types, ownership type, size, and …

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 …

Objectives: To determine whether practice structure (for example, list size, number of staff)
predicts team processes and whether practice structure and team process in turn predict …

While the potential benefits of group prac? tice have been noted repeatedly in the liter?
ature, a review of that literature indicates much of the discussion is drawn from in? dividual …

In France, a distinction should be made between two structures of group practice: health
centres and groups of doctors in private practice. The former accounts for a very small part of …

Background: The culture of medical group practices is gaining increasing attention as one of
the most important organizational factors influencing the costs and quality of health care …

Teamworking is a vital element in the delivery of primary healthcare. There is evidence that
well organised multidisciplinary teams are more effective in developing quality of care …

Background General practice is increasingly expected to deliver population care to
individual patients. The feasibility and ethics of this policy shift have been challenged. Aim …