Clinician Teamwork

摘要

Increasingly, medical care in the United States is a team effort. Intuitively, teamwork should improve the chances for positive patient outcomes and provide an antidote to what has been a fragmented, hyper-specialized system of care delivery. But getting specialists to work together throughout a patient's episode of care is easier said than done, however rational the idea might be. The uniquely tragic and public circumstances under which the Marathon patients were injured prompted the kind of comprehensive clinical teamwork from which all patients could benefit.