Interdisciplinary collaboration for healthcare professionals.
Interdisciplinary collaboration has the capacity to affect both healthcare providers and patients. Research has shown that the lack of communication and collaboration may be responsible for as much as 70% of the adverse events currently reported. The purpose of this article is 2-fold: to examine factors that may influence interdisciplinary collaboration and consequently patient outcomes and to examine the relationship between interdisciplinary collaboration and King's theory of goal attainment as a theory to support the phenomenon of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Fewster-Thuente
Lori
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Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA. llfewster@hotmail.com
Velsor-Friedrich
Barbara
B
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001318:Authoritarianism; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006040:Goals; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009742:Nursing Theory; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D024382:Professional Role / Q000523:psychology*; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012930:Social Dominance; D013997:Time Factors