Outcome measures for effective teamwork in inpatient care : : final report / / Melony E. Sorbero ... [et al.].

• Author: Rand Corporation.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sorbero, Melony E.; Rand Corporation.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has been one of the leaders in actions to improve teamwork, which it has pursued with the goal of achieving safer care and reducing adverse events for patients served by its military hospitals. DoD and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have worked together to develop tools to improve teamwork in delivering care in order to achieve safer outcomes for patients. In 2004, AHRQ modified its Patient Safety Evaluation Center contract with RAND to add an analytic study to identify and test measures that have the potential to capture improvements in t

Table of Contents

Review of the literature on teamwork and patient safety -- Selection of clinical areas -- Measure identification and rating on relationship to teamwork -- Empirical testing of selected measures -- Discussion.