Background: Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is vital for high-quality patient care, and effective IPC among medical professionals, especially trainees, is crucial to supporting positive individual and team outcomes. Measuring IPC and understanding its impact on patient care remains underexplored. Understanding which IPC patterns are associated with better patient and individual outcomes will inform how to best [...]

Background: Studies show that nurses and physicians often have different perceptions of the quality of interprofessional communication. An important part of daily communication between physicians and nurses involves patients’ clinical plan of care for each day (‘care plan’). We conducted a study examining hospitalist and nurse perceptions of communication of shared patient care plans. Methods: [...]

Background: A 2013 Mayo Clinic initiative (Henkin et al, 2016) to encourage communication between physicians and nurses by paging each to bedside for daily morning rounds improved physician and nursing perceptions of teamwork. Utilizing a mobile electronic-health-record-based alert for such a process has the potential to reduce implementation cost and feasibility barriers but has not [...]

Background: Interprofessional Plan of Care Rounds (POCR) are an organized assembly of the following health care team members: physicians, nursing, case management, social work, physical therapy, pharmacy, and other ancillary services (Terra, 2015). The purpose of the rounds is for the group to concisely review each patient, his or her goals for the day, discharge [...]

Background: Interprofessional Education (IPE) is an accreditation requirement for pharmacy, nursing, physician assistant (PA), and medical schools. Developing quality IPE learning activities that are meaningful and relevant to all learners can be challenging due to different levels of exposure and training in the discipline-specific curriculum. Purpose: We developed an interprofessional quality improvement/patient safety (QI/PS) workshop [...]

Background: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) initiative calls for providers to ensure that older adults move safely to maintain daily function. However, studies show that about a third of hospitalized older adults have bed rest orders, most of which are not medically indicated. Therefore, at our 537-bed community teaching hospital, we [...]

Background: In-hospital patient deterioration, often unpredictable and multifaceted, presents a significant challenge in hospital medicine. Despite existing measures like illness severity scoring systems and rapid response teams (RRT), patient outcomes remain suboptimal. Delays in recognizing and treating worsening conditions lead to adverse effects and increased healthcare costs. Purpose: In our large healthcare system, covering two [...]

Background: Hospital discharge is a vulnerable moment in healthcare delivery that impacts patient safety and experience. Improving this care transition necessitates a focus on the most error-prone and potentially hazardous parts of the process, including discharge logistics (e.g., transportation), medication safety, follow-up plans, and contingency planning. Many interventions have been investigated to improve discharge processes; [...]