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...

OBJECTIVE To identify and analyze the production of knowledge about the strategies that health care institutions have implemented to humanize care of hospitalized children. METHOD This is a systematic review conducted in the Virtual Health Library - Nursing and SciELO, using the seven steps proposed by the Cochrane Handbook. RESULTS 15 studies were selected, and strategies that involved rel...

direct and indirect healthcare costs through reduction of the need for healthcare clinic visits or hospitalization [7,8]. Regarding mHealth, there is an international conference, “mHealth Summit”, which was renamed “the Connected Health Conference” in 2015. The 8th international conference will be held from December 11 to 14, 2016 in Washington D.C. [9]. Although the meeting will deal with vari...

introduction: health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. in such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. data gathered by a standard checkli...

BACKGROUND Health care workforce shortages and an increase demand for health care services by an older demographic challenged by oral-systemic conditions are being recognized across health care systems. Demands are placed on health care professionals to render coordinated delivery of services. Management of oral-systemic conditions requires a trained health care workforce to render interprofess...

Primary health care (PHC) plays a pivotal role in health system reform locally and globally. The use of well functioning interprofessional primary health care (IPHC) teams is recognized as a key strategy in widespread health system reform across global, national, and provincial jurisdictions. IPHC teams contribute to the improvement of the health and well being of the population. These teams en...

The Institute of Medicine has released several important reports strongly recommending team training to improve patient safety. Most team theory assumes that teams are stable, and leadership is constant. However, there are numerous instances in health care where teams are not stable, and leadership is constantly changing. A growing body of evidence has documented the complexity of interdiscipli...