Outcome measures for effective teamwork in inpatient care : final report / Melony E. Sorbero ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sorbero, Melony E.

Rand Corporation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care teams.

Outcome assessment (Medical care).

Medicine--Quality control.

Medicine.

Medicine--Safety measures.

Medical errors--Prevention.

Medical errors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Department of Defense (DoD) has been one of the leaders in actions to improve teamwork, which it has pursued with the goal of achieving safer care and reducing adverse events for patients served by its military hospitals. DoD and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have worked together to develop tools to improve teamwork in delivering care in order to achieve safer outcomes for patients. In 2004, AHRQ modified its Patient Safety Evaluation Center contract with RAND to add an analytic study to identify and test measures that have the potential to capture improvements in t

Contents:

Review of the literature on teamwork and patient safety

Selection of clinical areas

Measure identification and rating on relationship to teamwork

Empirical testing of selected measures

Discussion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references .

ISBN:

1-281-73671-6

0-8330-4602-0

OCLC:

476182848