Title: Outcome measures for effective teamwork in inpatient care
Description: Addresses one step in the process of moving from teamwork training to teamwork practices that improve outcomes of care: identifying outcomes that are most likely to be affected as teamwork practices improve in an implementing organization. Discusses a literature search, methods for selecting and testing candidate measures, measures highly rated by clinical experts, and results of measure testing on administrative data of the DoD health system.
Subjects: Health care teams, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), Quality of Health Care, Medical Errors, Safety measures, Outcome assessment (Medical care), Inpatients, Quality control, Prevention, Organization & administration, Medicine, Prevention & control, Patient Care Team, Military Hospitals, Medical Professional Practice, MEDICAL, Administration, Practice Management & Reimbursement, Health Policy, Health & Biological Sciences, Health Care Outcome Assessment, Medical care, quality control, Medical protocols, Hospitals, administration