title: [Interdisciplinary relationships and humanization in intensive care units].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze those aspects of the relationship between the health care team of an ICU that may be decisive in the construction of humanized care.
  
  
  METHODS
  
  
  
  METHODS
  phenomenology: descriptive and exploratory. ANALYSIS and observation unit: Polyvalent 23-bed adult ICU.
  
  
  METHODS
  nine extensive interviews.
  
  
  METHODS
  healthcare professionals in interaction in the ICU that is being studied.
  
  
  METHODS
  assigning of data to emergent categories. Contrasting with existing theories.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Identification of guideline values circumspect to the humanistic paradigm. The value of professional role is accepted as emergency factor of certain attitudes. All the professional groups detect lack of independence situations, which are not always attributable to hierarchical reasons. Systematic interdisciplinary communication is evaluated positively. Humanization requires time, resources, and intergroup relationships and explicit commitment by the institution.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Relief of great suffering situations is the main reason for interdisciplinary disagreement. Construction of a tolerant setting and institutional recognition as factors favoring humanized care. Lack of time and resources as obstacles to the humanization of care.
authors.affiliation: Diplomada en Enfermería, Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII, Departament d'Infermeria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. lourdes.rubio@urv.net
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rubio Rico
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cosi Marsans
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martínez Márquez
authors.forename: Adorabel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miró Borrás
authors.forename: Lluïsa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sans Riba
authors.forename: Dolors
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Toda Savall
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Velasco Blasco
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012945:Social Values; D013030:Spain