Team approach and multidsciplinary care

• Book ID: 102341662
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 27 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1553-5592
• DOI: 10.1002/jhm.63

✦ Synopsis

Multidisciplinary care refers to active collaboration between various members in the healthcare system to develop optimal care plans for each hospitalized patient. Multidisciplinary care teams maintain goals to enhance quality and patient safety, improve outcomes, decrease length of stay, and lower costs. Hospitalists coordinate complex inpatient medical care from admission through all care transitions to discharge. Hospitalists lead multidisciplinary teams within their institutions to achieve these goals and to improve care processes.