Seeing what works: identifying and enhancing successful interprofessional collaboration between pathology and surgery.

Seeing what works: identifying and enhancing successful interprofessional collaboration between pathology and surgery. J Interprof Care. 2018 Oct 18;:1-13 Authors: Carroll K, Mesman J, McLeod H, Boughey J, Keeney G, Habermann E Abstract Utilising frozen section technologies, Mayo Clinic has one of the lowest reoperation rates for breast lumpectomy in the United States. The research reported on sought to understand the successful teamwork between the Breast Surgery Team and the Frozen Section Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. Researchers worked collaboratively with healthcare staff from breast surgery and the frozen section pathology laboratory to identify communication styles and strategies that contribute to the timely and accurate intraoperative evaluation of breast cancer specimens. Using the video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) methodology underpinned by a positive theoretical approach to researching quality and safety in healthcare, the researchers video-recorded the communications associated with specimen resections in surgery and the subsequent pathology diagnoses. Then, 57 staff from the breast surgery and frozen section laboratory teams attended video-reflexivity sessions to collaboratively analyse their communication practices and identify opportunities to optimize interprofessional communication. In this article, we focus on how the flexible, interdisciplinary, and cross-hierarchical communication within the frozen section laborator...
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care - Category: Health Management Tags: J Interprof Care Source Type: research