Hacking teamwork in health care: Addressing adverse effects of ad hoc team composition in critical care medicine.

Background: The continued need for improved teamwork in all areas of health care is widely recognized. The present article reports on the application of a hackathon to the teamwork problems specifically associated with ad hoc team formation in rapid response teams.

Purposes: Hackathons-problem-solving events pioneered in computer science-are on the rise in health care management.