Toward spanning the quality chasm: an examination of team functioning measures.

Objective: To examine the effect of 5 measures of team functioning on patient outcomes.

Design: Observational, exploratory, measurement. Team functioning surveys and patient outcomes collected 1 year apart in a clinical trial were analyzed.

Significant differences in pediatric psychotropic side effects: Implications for school performance.

Some side effects (SEs) of increasingly prescribed psychotropic medications can impact student performance in school. SE risk varies, even among drugs from the same class (e.g.

Longitudinal changes in hearing sensitivity among men: the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study.

Over 35 years (1962-1996), participants of the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study (NAS), a study of healthy aging in men, completed up to eight audiometric assessments. This report describes the age-related hearing trajectories of screened men (n=953) aged 23 to 81 years at enrollment, estimates the typical rate of change per decade in hearing sensitivity, and compares longitudinal and cross-sectional estimates of change in hearing sensitivity. The men were followed 14 years on average.

Measuring team process for quality improvement.

Background: Even though team care is pivotal to stroke rehabilitation, we have few tools to measure team process. Process measures of team functioning would benefit stroke rehabilitation outcomes and quality improvement (QI).

Objective: To improve measures of team process and evaluate their potential for use in rehabilitation research and QI.

Team training and stroke rehabilitation outcomes: a cluster randomized trial.

Objective: To test whether a team training intervention in stroke rehabilitation is associated with improved patient outcomes.

Design: A cluster randomized trial of 31 rehabilitation units comparing stroke outcomes between intervention and control groups.

Setting: Thirty-one Veterans Affairs medical centers.