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Abstract Number: 41
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Teamwork is essential to providing safe, effective, patient-centered care. Prior research documented discrepancies in perceptions of teamwork and collaboration among nurses and physicians. However, prior studies have been limited to single sites and academic medical centers. Methods: We conducted surveys of healthcare professionals in 4 hospitals participating in the REdesigning SystEms to Improve Teamwork […]
Abstract Number: 44
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Nurse-physician teamwork is a critical determinant of outcomes among hospitalized patients. Although improvement interventions have been designed for specific settings (eg, intensive care units and operating rooms), less attention has been given to nurse-physician teamwork in hospital medicine. Therefore, our goal was to assess the quality and effectiveness of interventions for improving nurse-physician teamwork […]
Abstract Number: 300
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
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 […]
Abstract Number: 348
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: There is often little communication across inpatient medicine teams at a busy academic medical center. Although teams comprise trainees across many levels, individual teams often work in parallel without relating shared challenges and experiences. This can be isolating, and practicing in such silos can propagate systems issues and contribute to burn out. Purpose: Create […]
Abstract Number: 483
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: The merging of academic and community hospitals into a single large healthcare system often does not account for the differences in health care delivery between sites, despite attempts by the system to streamline care through standardized policies, common metrics, and a shared medical record system. Multi-site service lines can be an effective strategy for […]