OBJECTIVE To increase the number and quality of injury prevention recommendations made by Washington State (USA) child death review teams. DESIGN Before and after study design involving four intervention teams and 21 comparison teams. METHODS Intervention teams received injury prevention training, collaborative process improvement coaching, and access to web based prevention resources. An e...

BACKGROUND Use of teams has shown to be an important factor for organizational performance. However, research has shown that a team has to meet certain criteria and operate in a certain way to realize the potential benefits of team organizing. There are few studies that have examined how teams operate in the nursing home sector and their effect on quality of care. This study investigates the re...

Because of the complexity of quality improvement, teamwork and collaboration are essential to making quality initiatives successful. To be credible, quality initiatives as well as employee teams must generate measurable, meaningful results to demonstrate that the time and energy expended is worth the effort. Teams must progress beyond the process and training elements of quality to attain organ...

This study extends the theory of Recognition Primed Decision-Making by applying it to groups. Furthermore, we explore implicit and explicit training. An experiment was conducted in which teams made resource allocation decisions while physically dispersed and supported with a shared virtual work surface (What You See Is What I See WYSIWIS). The task required teams to recognize patterns and colla...

This study examined the influences of team charters and performance strategies on the performance trajectories of 32 teams of master's of business administration students competing in a business strategy simulation over time. The authors extended existing theory on team development by demonstrating that devoting time to laying a foundation for both teamwork (i.e., team charters) and taskwork (p...

background : organizational features can affect how employers view on their qwl is an important consideration for employ­ees interested in improving employees' job satisfaction. the research reported here aimed to provide the processes used to investigate and implement a pathway for tums employ­ees improving of quality of work life as an approach model. methods : a quality of work life strategi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to conduct a scoping review of the literature about the establishment and impact of quality and safety team initiatives in acute care. METHODS Studies were identified through electronic searches of Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ABI Inform, Cochrane databases. Grey literature and bibliographies were also searched. Qualitative or quantitative studie...

BACKGROUND The delivery of healthcare depends on individual providers, coordination within teams, and the structure of the work setting. We analyzed the amount of variation in technical quality and patient satisfaction accounted for at the patient, provider, team, and medical center level. METHODS Data abstracted from Veterans Health Administration patient medical records for 2007 were used t...