title: Best practices: faces of teamwork in long-term care.
abstract: Interdisciplinary teamwork has become the foundation of quality care in nursing facilities and other long-term care settings. Increasingly, physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other professionals are forming teams to ensure quality, maximize outcomes, manage risk, implement effective processes, and facilitate patient, family, and staff satisfaction. By examining best practices in interdisciplinary teamwork, pharmacists and others can better understand how to successfully use teamwork and avoid the pitfalls that cause miscommunications, gaps in documentation, and other problems.
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaldy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003704:Dementia / Q000628:therapy; D004282:Documentation; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management; D012449:Safety; D013685:Telecommunications