title: Healthcare teams - a practical framework for integration.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Delivering integrated team care is a major priority for many countries. In Australia this is a component of the GP Super Clinic Program but it is also a focus of the broader primary care sector. Explicit consideration of human dynamics and team process is often absent from the move to integrated team care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide a practical framework that will inform the development and evaluation of integrated healthcare teams.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Team Focused and Clinical Content Framework is an approach to building integrated teams. This has the potential to be used to monitor and evaluate team development and functioning. Both the framework and clinical pathways provide practical tools for clinics to address the need to build integration into teams.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Queensland and The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Queensland. j.hepworth@uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hepworth
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Marley
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*