Purpose Teamwork is essential for ensuring the quality and safety of health care delivery in
the intensive care unit (ICU). This article addresses what we know about teamwork, team …

Objective: There is a growing literature on the relationship between teamwork and patient
outcomes in intensive care, providing new insights into the skills required for effective team …

Based on findings from the most recent research evidence in medicine and management,
four principles are identified for improving the effectiveness of team working in intensive …

• Background Links between teamwork and outcomes have been established in a number of
fields. Investigations into this link in healthcare have yielded equivocal results.• Objective To …

Intensive care units (ICUs) provide care to the most severely ill hospitalized patients.
Although ICUs increasingly rely on interprofessional teams to provide critical care, little …

Background Healthcare is increasingly delivered in a team-based format emphasizing
interdisciplinary coordination. While recent reviews have investigated team-building …

Background: Safe and effective patient care depends on the teamwork of multidisciplinary
healthcare professionals. Unfortunately, the field currently lacks an evidence-based …

The aviation industry has made significant progress in identifying the skills and behaviors
that result in effective teamwork. Its conceptualization of teamwork, development of training …

Objectives To investigate the relationship between teamwork and clinical performance and
potential moderating variables of this relationship. Design Systematic review and meta …

Objectives: To identify the behaviors senior physicians (eg, specialists, staff attendings)
report using to lead multidisciplinary teams in the intensive care unit. Design: Semistructured …