Purpose To determine the effectiveness of patient safety culture strategies to improve
hospital patient safety climate. Data sources Electronic search of the Cochrane Library …

Context: One of health care's foremost challenges is the achievement of integration and
collaboration among the groups providing care. Yet this fundamentally group‐related issue …

Background Team effectiveness is often explained on the basis of input-process-output
(IPO) models. According to these models a relationship between organizational culture …

As a key department within a healthcare organisation, the operating room is a hazardous
environment, where the consequences of errors are high, despite the relatively low rates of …

BACKGROUND: Effective teamwork and communication is a crucial determinant of patient
safety in the operating room. Communication failures are often underpinned by the inherent …

** Shortlisted for the NASEN Special Educational Needs Academic Book Award 2009** Inter-
professional collaborations are invaluable relationships which can prevent the social …

Objective: To compare multi-and interdisciplinary team approaches concerning team
process (teamwork) and team effectiveness (team performance and staff satisfaction) in …

Background Effective teamwork in the operating room (OR) is often undermined by the “silo
mentality” of the differing professions. Such thinking is formed early in one's professional …

Reflective practice has moved from the margins to the mainstream of professional education.
However, in this process, its radical potential has been subsumed by individualistic, rather …

The past decade has seen, in response to the growth in service industries, increasing
interest in what has been termed services science and innovation. This embryonic research …