High-quality healthcare depends on various factors, and one of the most essential of them is the successful teamwork process between the medical personnel. Rosen et al. (2018) analyzed the secondary data on this topic and identified that effective group behaviors, decent quality of knowledge, teamwork interventions, performance, and collaboration help medical professionals enhance patient outcomes. It is essential in the United States to optimize the communication between all the employees of the organizational unit to provide medical aid according to the standards of care. The researchers state that failure in one of the steps directly led to patient harm or inappropriate therapies (Rosen et al., 2018). To maintain better results in teamwork, the teams of professionals should be first divided by structure and context. Then, inside each group, members should divide their tasks to achieve interdependence and logical group composition (Rosen et al., 2018). Learning to work in multidisciplinary conditions, developing skills, and sharing competencies and leadership is also important step for the amelioration of teamwork.
Fast absorption of information, constant active education, and adaptation are the conditions of medical learning. Practicing teamwork by being involved in various training is essential for the speed and efficiency of teamwork. Productivity of the interdisciplinary approach and high-speed communications inside the group of medical professionals lead to the positive patient, staff, and hospital outcomes (Rosen et al., 2018). Finally, the researchers propose the future directions of the studies involving the telemedicine impact in a multidisciplinary approach, investigation of professional mistakes, and science measurement for teams (Rosen et al., 2018). Finally, the researchers suggest examining Electronic Health Records (HERs) as agent-based team members (Rosen et al., 2018). In conclusion, the authors of the study underline the up-to-date importance of teamwork that can contribute to general science and enhance the results of the treatment.
Reference
Rosen, M. A., DiazGranados, D., Dietz, A. S., Benishek, L. E., Thompson, D., Pronovost, P. J., & Weaver, S. J. (2018). Teamwork in healthcare: Key discoveries enabling safer, high-quality care. The American psychologist, 73(4), 433–450. Web.