A Comprehensive Approach to Assessment of Testamentary Capacity.

The growing aging population raises important implications for legal and clinical systems, including testamentary capacity (TC) assessment. Yet, there are limited comprehensive and standardized assessment measures for TC readily available for clinical use. A review of current assessment methods and standardized approaches for TC assessment is provided.

Collaborative capacity and patient-centered care in the Veterans' Health Administration Community Living Centers.

Introduction: Previous research in acute care settings has shown that collaborative capacity, defined as the way providers collaborate as equal team members, can be improved by the ways in which an organization supports its staff and teams. This observational cross-sectional study examines the association between collaborative capacity and supportive organizational context, supervisory support, and person-centered care in nursing homes to determine if similar relationships exist.

Methods: We adapted the Care Coordination Survey for nursing homes and administered it to clinical staff in 20 VA Community Living Centers.

The importance of a high-performance work environment in hospitals.

Objective: To examine the benefits of a high-performance work environment (HPWE) for employees, patients, and hospitals.

Study Setting: Forty-five adult, medical-surgical units in nine hospitals in upstate New York.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Building collaborative capacity: promoting interdisciplinary teamwork in the absence of formal teams.

Background: Contradictory findings about the effectiveness of health care teams may relate to the actual structure of teams-loose rather than formal-and the nature of decision making-hierarchical rather than egalitarian. We introduce the concept of collaborative capacity-the likelihood that providers, no matter how brief their exchange, will collaborate as if they were members of an egalitarian team even in the absence of a formal team structure.

Objective: To examine aspects and determinants of collaborative capacity, namely task interdependence, norms of working together, and egalitarian collaboration among interdisciplinary providers on health care units.