It is designed to improve clinical information, facilitate teamwork, and allow management of health care quality.
Oude Groote Beverborg et al. (2015a, p. 187) found that "transformational leadership practices play a significant role in facilitating teamwork, and sustaining teachers' levels of learning in schools".
A written care plan is also hypothesised to facilitate teamwork.
Facilitating teamwork across organizational boundaries was very challenging.
The class was divided into groups to facilitate teamwork and reflective practice.
Improved service concepts and attitudes would also facilitate teamwork among colleagues, boost the morale of the nursing faculty and reduce resignations and career changes.
In Australia, root cause analysis was used to improve work practices and patient safety, to facilitate teamwork and communication about patient care [ 5].
This paper describes the development and implementation of an intervention to facilitate teamwork between general practice and outside allied and community health services and providers.
Ackerman et al. (2009) identified critical incident themes to include life balance, creating connections, emotional responses to patients, building confidence, managing expectations and facilitating teamwork [ 16].
13 14 17 One review 18 studying interventions intended to facilitate teamwork and communication in healthcare found that only 3 of 14 studies measured clinical outcomes and that only 7 of 14 studies measured effects on the safety culture.
The lessons learnt from this study provide an important basis for facilitating teamwork through DGPs and for the development of new models of primary health care envisaged by the health reform process (see A Healthier Future For All Australians - Final Report for more details: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/nhhrc/publishing.nsf/Content/nhhrc-report).
