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- Title: IV. Health Care Teams (Communication, Collaboration, And Teamwork Among Health Care Professionals)
- Author : Communication Research Trends
- Release Date : January 22, 2002
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 202 KB
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More formally organized and regulated collaboration occurs in health care teams. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams continue to grow in popularity in virtually all aspects of health care, particularly in the field of geriatrics, where comprehensive assessment by a team is well established internationally as a necessary aspect of health care delivery (Rubenstein, Stuck, Siu, & Wieland, 1991). Collaboration between individual members of different health care disciplines has been increasingly formalized with the advent in the late 1970s of health care teams. Increased specialization contributes to the need for collaboration between experts in different areas of knowledge (Cooley, 1994; Satin, 1994; Stahelski & Tsukuda, 1990). Health care teams have become prevalent in many aspects of health care delivery (Abramson & Mizrahi, 1996; Cooley, 1994; Lichtenstein, Alexander, Jinnett, & Ullman, 1997; Wieland, et al., 1996). Teams exist in primary care (Hannay, 1980); developmental disability assessment (Sands, 1993), community mental health (Griffiths, 1998), long-term institutional care (Cott, 1998); rehabilitation (Cooley, 1994); oncology (Sullivan & Fisher, 1995), hospices (Berteotti & Seibold, 1994); and health care education (Edwards & Smith, 1998; Interdisciplinary Health Education Panel of the National League for Nursing, 1998). Geriatrics is one of the areas in health care in which interdisciplinary collaboration on teams has become commonplace. Since the 1980s, health care researchers have drawn attention to the particular needs, preferences, and abilities of elderly patients. The elderly are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, with elderly women being the majority of this group (Allman, Ragan, Newsome, Scoufos, & Nussbaum, 1999). Older patients are likely to have fragmented care, seeing a different specialist for each chronic or acute condition and greatly increasing the need for coordination of care and treatment (Beisecker, 1996). Members of different disciplines working together is a cornerstone of geriatric care; older cancer patients are more likely to have more comorbidities and psychosocial needs than younger patients (Stahelski & Tsukuda, 1990).