Purposeful interprofessional team intervention improves relational coordination among advanced heart failure care teams.

Purposeful interprofessional team intervention improves relational coordination among advanced heart failure care teams. J Interprof Care. 2018 Dec 30;:1-9 Authors: Abu-Rish Blakeney E, Lavallee DC, Baik D, Pambianco S, O'Brien KD, Zierler BK Abstract Effective delivery of healthcare is highly interdependent within and between interprofessional (IP) care teams and the patients they serve. This is particularly true for complex health conditions such as advanced heart failure (AHF). Our Academic Practice Partnership received funding to carry out IP workforce development with inpatient AHF care teams. Our objectives were to (a) identify challenges in team functioning that affected communication and relationships among the AHF care teams, (b) collaboratively identify a focal work process in need of improvement, and (c) test whether facilitated the implementation of team training and work process changes would lead to improvements in team communication, relationships, and process outcomes. The health-care team identified implementation of structured IP bedside rounds (SIBR) as the preferred approach to improving collaborative care. Utilizing a cross-sectional pre/post design, changes in team communication and relationships before and after a team intervention that included TeamSTEPPS training and SIBR implementation, were assessed using a validated Relational Coordination (RC) survey. The study population included AHF care team members (n...
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care - Category: Health Management Tags: J Interprof Care Source Type: research