Effect of Complementary Interventions to Redesign Care on Teamwork and Quality for Hospitalized Medical Patients : A Pragmatic Controlled Trial.

Background: Multiple challenges impede interprofessional teamwork and the provision of high-quality care to hospitalized patients.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of interventions to redesign hospital care delivery on teamwork and patient outcomes.

Design: Pragmatic controlled trial.

Effect of an attending nurse on timeliness of discharge, patient satisfaction, and readmission.

Aims: To improve the timeliness and quality of discharge for patients by creating the role of the attending nurse.

Background: Discharge time affects hospital throughput and patient satisfaction. Bedside nurses and hospitalists have competing priorities that can hinder performing timely, high-quality discharges.

A Multisite Study of Interprofessional Teamwork and Collaboration on General Medical Services.

Background: Teamwork and collaboration are essential to providing high-quality care. Prior research has found discrepancies between nurses' and physicians' perceptions in operating rooms, ICUs, and labor and delivery units. Less is known about health care professionals' perceptions of teamwork and collaboration on general medical services.

Teamwork Essentials for Hospitalists.

Teamwork is essential to providing high-quality patient care. Hospital settings pose important challenges to teamwork. Measurement is key to understanding baseline performance and assessing whether teamwork is improving.

Neonatal back transport: perspectives from parents of Medicaid-insured infants and providers.

Purpose: To examine parents' and health care providers' perceptions of back transport from a tertiary care neonatal intensive care unit to a community hospital.

Design: Qualitative, hypothesis-generating, cross-sectional study utilizing focus group methodology.

Sample: Participants included 12 parents of back-transported infants insured by Medicaid, 6 regional NICU health care providers, and 17 community hospital special care nursery health care providers.