"Ju mer vi är tillsammans ?" : Mångprofessionellt teamarbete i vården
Year: 2004
Type: report
Abstract: Multiprofessional teamwork has become the preferred model of practice promoted for many areas of health care services. This is especially so in areas where the patients care needs are extensive and multidimensional. This literature review aims to determine: - How multiprofessional healthcare teams (MPHCT) are described in research literature. - What is described as the most important factors affecting work performed by MPHCTs. - What the advantages and disadvantage of MPHCTs are described as. The source of data includes 89 studies identified from a search of the computerized database PsychInfo done in June 2003 for the period of 1872 - 2003. A common way to describe a MPHCT is as an identified collective in which members share common team goals and work interdependently in planning, problem solving, decision making and implementing and evaluating teamrelated tasks. The specialist that may be included in a MPHCT is for example physicians, clinical nurses, social workers, physiotherapists, psychologists and occupational therapists. Research on MPHCTs has first of all placed its focus on influencing factors that lies within the team, and not so much on factors concerning the organizational context. The influencing factor most commonly described in literature is the professional differences among the team members. Described as important are the team members’ knowledge of each other’s competence, their attitude toward each other, their attitude teamwork and their image of what teamwork is about. Important factors are also how influence over teamwork is distributed, how decisions are made, and how differences of opinion are settled. Important for work outcome is also clarity and agreement on roles, clarity and agreement on objectives and a leadership that primarily is concentrated on the integration of the different professional perspectives represented in the team. Advantages of MPHCTs as a way to organize health care services are described in literature. An advantage of the professional diversity of the team is the possibility it renders the team members to broaden their view on what the origin of the patients’ symptoms might be, the teamwork may therefore be a stimulating way to work. The multidimensional way to view the patient problems and to design a treatment plan is described as an advantage. Several studies also indicates that team based care might be more efficient than care organized in a traditional way. A disadvantage that has been noticed is that different professional backgrounds might lead to conflicts within the team. Another disadvantage described is the time- consuming process decision-making might become when you want to include several different perspectives.
Author: Suzanne Blomqvist
Language: Swedish
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1650628820