BACKGROUND This mixed methods study was designed to explore the acceptability and impact of feedback of team performance data to primary care interdisciplinary teams. METHODS Seven interdisciplinary teams were offered a one-hour, facilitated performance feedback session presenting data from a comprehensive, previously-conducted evaluation, selecting highlights such as performance on chronic d...

The paper describes a systems acquisition simulation using virtual teams in a health care informatics course. The simulation enables virtual teams to participate in a systems acquisition decision for an electronic health records (EMR) system. Each virtual team used a web-based team communications discussion board to assess the attributes of each system, to discuss alternatives, and to reach a d...

introduction: hospital information system (his) is a computerized system which is used as an electronic tool for patient information management and plays a significant role in providing quality health care services. therefore, his users' satisfaction about the quality of the services offered is crucial in assessing and more importantly improving the technical aspects of the system. on the other...

The high performance organisation is a community of hundreds of disparate groups of people working in teams, throughout its structures and across its geography. For an interesting biological imagery, imagine looking through a microscope at an organisms cell structure and observing the countless amoebic movements, energy and growth formations which then split away and dissolve within the mass, j...

OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the use of quality systems to improve urinary incontinence (UI) care in older adults receiving home care and to assess the associations between these quality systems and UI-related process and patient outcomes. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING 19 home care agencies in the Netherlands comprising 155 home care teams. SAMPLE 3480 adults aged 65 years and ...

Context: During systematic literature reviews it is necessary to assess the quality of empirical papers. Current guidelines suggest that two researchers should independently apply a quality checklist and any disagreements must be resolved. However, there is little empirical evidence concerning the effectiveness of these guidelines. Aims: This paper investigates the three techniques that can be ...

BACKGROUND Surgery is an indivisible, indispensable part of healthcare. In Africa, surgery may be thought of as the neglected stepchild of global public health. We describe our experience over a 3-year period of intensive collaboration between specialized teams from a Dutch hospital and local teams of an orthopaedic hospital in Effiduase-Koforidua, Ghana. INTERVENTION During 2010-2012, medica...

[Purpose] Sufficient sleep is required for maximal performance and good mood. Japan has three national wheelchair basketball teams: Top male, Top female, and Under-23 (U23) male teams. Using these team members as model, this study investigated the difference of sleep status of wheelchair basketball players by age and gender. [Subjects and Methods] There were 44 participants: 14 in the Top male ...

Technological advances have an ever-increasing impact on our society. Globalization and the changing structures of organizations have created virtual work groups that are distributed across space (different sites) and time. Collaboration among workers is vital to both ongoing organizational activities and project-based activities. Communication is often seen as the most important factor contrib...