Background: Effective teams share common attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions that support teamwork. Within patient safety literature, effective teamwork is a core feature of interventions that reduce adverse events. However, research on teamwork in healthcare has focused on teams of healthcare professionals and has not examined how patients and their family caregivers experience teamwork as part […]

Case Presentation: A 50‐year‐old woman with Down syndrome mental disability presented with acute confusion and diarrhea. She was hypotensive, tachycardic, and in acute renal failure. Patient was admitted to the ICU for septic shock secondary to urinary tract infection and C. difficile colitis. Blood and urine cultures grew Providencia, and she was treated with appropriate […]