Team behaviors in emergency care: a qualitative study using behavior analysis of what makes team work

Team behaviors in emergency care: a qualitative study using behavior analysis of what makes team work

OBJECTIVE Teamwork has been suggested as a promising approach to improving care processes in emergency departments (ED). However, for teamwork to yield expected results, implementation must involve behavior changes. The aim of this study is to use behavior analysis to qualitatively examine how teamwork plays out in practice and to understand eventual discrepancies between planned and actual beh...

What Makes a Good Team Player? Personality and Team Effectiveness

Good team players are often defined in trait terms; that is, they are described as dependable, flexible, or cooperative. Our goal is to examine the relationship between team member personality traits and team effectiveness. However, to understand the effects of personality on team performance requires greater specificity in how personality is described and in how team effectiveness is described...

Experience of Physiotherapists of Teamwork Results: Teamwork of Team Work Results: A Qualitative Study

Purpose: In modern societies, in order to save medical costs and provide improved and comprehensive healthcare services, cooperation of various specialties in the form of teamwork has gained significant popularity. Physiotherapists, as members of the treatment team, try to improve the health of their fellow human beings. This study aimed to describe physiotherapists’ experience and percep...

What makes a team smarter? More women.

Team interactions in specialized palliative care teams: a qualitative study.

BACKGROUND Teamwork is a standard of care in palliative care and that is emphasized by leading organizations. When interdisciplinary teams communicate their varied assessments, outcomes may be more than additive due to the synthesis of information. Interprofessionality does not guarantee multidimensionality in health care interventions, however, and that interprofessional teams promote collabor...