To address this challenge, surgery residents and other members of the health care team were organized into interdisciplinary workgroups that were tasked with developing solutions to "systems issues" confronted on a daily basis.
47% of the participants suggested the EU should set up interdisciplinary workgroups on different topics to work together in tackling E&H problems.
In order to make different disciplines work together in tackling environmental health problems, almost half of the participants (47%) agreed that the EU has to set up interdisciplinary workgroups on different topics.
VAIL involves (1) six primary care QI demonstration practices in three different VA medical systems and (2) four interdisciplinary, cross-site workgroups on specific topics (eg, homelessness).
Twelve thematic workgroups, composed of interdisciplinary experts, made recommendations on short-, intermediand-, and long-term milestones, and success metrics.
In 2002, the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) workgroup convened an international interdisciplinary group that ultimately proposed the RIFLE classification for AKI, which distinguished between risk, injury, failure, loss and end-stage kidney disease [ 2].
Recently, the issue of AKI classification has been reappraised by the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) workgroup, who published the first international, interdisciplinary clinical practice guideline on AKI [ 16], which is also available on the KDIGO website [ 17].
Also, this seriously limits interdisciplinary discussions in, for example, surgical or oncological workgroups.
A dozen thematic workgroups included an average of 15 interdisciplinary stakeholders to ensure vigorous discussion and foster continued collaboration beyond the conference.
