It is shown how an integrative approach provides a real asset in terms of cost, efficiency, and speed due to a unique environment that supports well-defined and reusable processes, improves knowledge management, and handles properly multi-disciplinary teamwork, and disparate data structures and protocols.
Literature on multi-disciplinary teamwork emphasizes the potential challenges of inter-professional collaboration owing to distinctive occupational cultures [ 24, 25].
Multiple care failings in hospitals have led to calls for increased interprofessional training in medical education to improve multi-disciplinary teamwork.
Research can be carried out in order to establish effective educational tools which will reinforce the advantages of shared care, and the use of multi-disciplinary teamwork for management.
The agreed operating principles are that CPHC services should be: accessible, locally delivered; community driven; comprise a mix of direct care, prevention, and promotion; characterised by multi-disciplinary teamwork and intersectoral and interagency collaboration; and are culturally respectful.
Reflecting on the needs of patients with dementia provides students with a prism through which they can consider diverse professional matters including ethics, patient dignity and multi-disciplinary teamwork.
In a trial which randomised primary care organisations to deliver a policy to provide breastfeeding support groups, the breastfeeding outcomes were explained by the characteristics of the primary care organisation, including health inequalities and deprivation, the amount of organisational change taking place and multi-disciplinary teamwork [ 18].
Revision of professional roles in multi-disciplinary clinical teamwork in primary care is advocated by European governments.
Care pathways can provide patients with clear expectations of their care, provide a means of measuring patient's progress, promote teamwork on a multi-disciplinary team, facilitate the use of guidelines, and may act as a basis for a payment system.
Other solutions that emerged from our interviews included improving non-technical skills and teamwork, 34 crossover training and multi-disciplinary training.
