Health research literature on quality and safety in recent years has pointed to a need to
explore the characteristics of interdisciplinary team work unique to the health care sector …

Within existing health care safety research, limited attention has been paid to the
significance of “the system” in relation to team work, and the term system is also commonly …

This thesis identifies needs in health research literature on quality and safety to explore the
nature of teamwork and develop models that can be applied to, and integrate findings from …

There is widespread consensus that teamwork constitutes one of the key requirements in
today's multidisciplinary and highly complex system of delivering care. In recent years …

By comparing and contrasting the status and challenges of teamwork training,
communication, learning and the use of simulations across the health care and aviation …

Comments on an article by SM Deneckere et al.(see record 2012-14217-003). Deneckere et
al. provided a thorough review of the care pathways literature as it relates to teamwork. This …

Of course, Kelly and Short are right. They raise important points about the viability of teams
and teamwork in health care systems. They note how the environmental context, the …

This paper explores the factors that influence the persistence of unsafe practice in an
interprofessional team setting in health care, towards the development of a descriptive …

Abstract In the report Five Years After to Err is Human, it was noted that" the combination of
complexity, professional fragmentation, and a tradition of individualism, enhanced by a well …

The topic of this thesis is teamwork in healthcare. Healthcare is often described as complex.
This description is more appropriate now than ever with the extensive specialization that has …