"direct colleagues" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a coworker or supervisor with whom you have a direct relationship with, in comparison to someone who is more removed, like someone from a different department. For example, "I discussed the project with my direct colleagues before submitting it."
The results might indicate that health care employees can disseminate their risk perceptions through communication with their direct colleagues.
This is an import aspect of microblogging in education because it challenges students to direct colleagues and in some cases the instructor to "audio, and video that might help them understand the settings and context of assigned texts" (Jones, 2015:102015
They were also particularly helpful in bedside training of the ICU nurses, their direct colleagues.
If physicians needed advice about pain management, they consulted their direct colleagues (74%), their pharmacist (53%) or the palliative care consultation team (not in Table).
However, this service appears to be called upon in particular by general practitioners, and much less often by specialists in hospitals who often call on their direct colleagues, which may be more practical and private but jeopardizes independence.
In order to avoid anxiety, bias or refusal of participation among the care-givers, it is made clear that none of the direct colleagues or patients will be able to see the images and that these images cannot be claimed by the patient in case of an adverse outcome.
In a Skype chat with Wauters (who was a direct colleague of mine while at TC and since as a competitor) I started off by asking him why Tech.eu had decided to take investment?
There is a woman I work with - actually she is my direct colleague and we have the same title, same boss, and similar responsibilities - and she absolutely drives me crazy.
For all physicians, the consultant was not a direct colleague (i.e. same working environment) of the attending physician in 41.8% of cases and in two thirds of cases the consultant was not a co-attending physician of and did not know the patient.
If you are a direct colleague, point out how this reflects poorly on your colleague and has been noticed by others in the office or workplace.
Incidentally, he and Ms. Herzog are married — a fact I normally wouldn't note in such a context, except that it somehow seems to underscore my (perhaps imaginary) sense that these young writers and their sympathetic acting and directing colleagues form a small but important new school of contemporary theater, or to put it more sentimentally, a new family.
