title: The challenge of making it real: interdisciplinary practice in a "seamless" organization.
abstract: Managed care is forcing health care organizations to change. Many are seeking structures in which staff can deliver sound, better-integrated care and service faster and at lower cost. The university of Virginia Medical Center developed and implemented a type of "boundaryless" or "seamless" organizational structure aimed at achieving these goals through more highly developed interdisciplinary clinical and administrative practice. This article is a progress report of that reorganization.
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sorrells-Jones
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*