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 …

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 …

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 …

• 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 …

Background The intensive care unit (ICU) is a nexus for interspecialty and interdisciplinary
tensions because of its pivotal role in the care of the hospital's most critically ill patients and …

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a dynamic, complex and, at times, highly stressful work
environment that involves ongoing exposure to the complexities of interprofessional team …

Research has suggested that interprofessional collaboration could improve patient
outcomes in the intensive care unit (ICU). Maintaining optimal interprofessional interactions …

Objective To determine types, sources, and predictors of conflicts among patients with
prolonged stay in the ICU. Design and setting We prospectively identified conflicts by …

Background Effectively managing patient safety and clinicians' emotional exhaustion are
important goals of healthcare organizations. Previous cross-sectional studies showed that …

Method Data collection. Over a four-month period in the winter of 2001–2002, 144 hours of
ICU team interactions were captured during 36 observation sessions at two urban teaching …