title: Nurse-physician communication: an organizational accountability.
abstract: Dysfunctional nurse-physician communication has been linked to medication errors, patient injuries, and patient deaths. The organization is accountable for providing a context that supports effective nurse-physician communication. Organizational strategies to create such a context are synthesized from the structural, human resource, political, and cultural frameworks of organizational behavior.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
authors.forename: Patricia H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Arford
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005246:Feedback; D006040:Goals; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D016134:Organizational Policy; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D024382:Professional Role; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012944:Social Support