Within existing health care safety research, limited attention has been paid to the
significance of “the system” in relation to team work, and the term system is also commonly …

Health research literature on quality and safety in recent years has pointed to a need to
explore the characteristics of interdisciplinary team work unique to the health care sector …

This thesis identifies needs in health research literature on quality and safety to explore the
nature of teamwork and develop models that can be applied to, and integrate findings from …

Background Within existing research in health and medicine, the nature of knowledge on
how teams conduct safe work practices has yet to be properly explored. Methods We …

The topic of this thesis is teamwork in healthcare. Healthcare is often described as complex.
This description is more appropriate now than ever with the extensive specialization that has …

This paper explores the factors that influence the persistence of unsafe practice in an
interprofessional team setting in health care, towards the development of a descriptive …

Purpose–Current thinking about “patient safety” emphasises the causal relationship
between the work environment and the delivery of clinical care. This research draws on the …

The application of concepts, theories and methods from systems ergonomics within patient
safety has proved to be an expanding area of research and application in the last decade …

This article focuses on identifying elements of the individual's and team's ability to conduct
and complete operations with a minimum of complications, defined as safe work practices …

There is widespread consensus that teamwork constitutes one of the key requirements in
today's multidisciplinary and highly complex system of delivering care. In recent years …