... in dentistry, including a focus on new dentists, senior dentists, other dental team members and the patient. A new conceptual model of the New Dentist LMX Quartet, which is unique and specific to new dentist teams, was developed. Research limitations/implications The study identifies the need for research...

... clearly define team member roles. Key aspirations included the need for future innovations in health service delivery to place health service equity as a goal for interprofessional practice. There is a need to find ways to measure and articulate the impact for vulnerable populations and communities...

...Stephanie Best; Christian Beech; Iain J. Robbé; Sharon Williams Purpose One overlooked determinant of interprofessional teamwork is the mobilisation of professional identity. Taking a health or social care practitioner out of their professional silo and placing them in an interprofessional team...

... the complex context is an important aspect of implementation success. Despite the acknowledged influence of context, the concept continues to receive insufficient attention at the team-level within implementation research. Using two heterogeneous multidisciplinary healthcare teams as implementation case...

...Frank van Gool; Joyce Bierbooms; Richard Janssen; Inge Bongers Purpose Flexibility is necessary in a dynamic healthcare environment. However, balancing flexibility and consistency is difficult for healthcare teams, especially when working in threatening conditions. Methods are needed to help teams...

... considered how different professions manage and mobilise their professional identity (PI) whilst working in an integrated team. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative cross-sectional study was designed using eight focus groups with community-based health...

...Lusine Poghosyan; Robert J. Lucero; Ashley R. Knutson; Mark W. Friedberg; Hermine Poghosyan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize existing evidence regarding health care team networks, including their formation and association with outcomes in various health care settings. Design...

... knowledge of the health professions in shared mental models is a precondition for effective teamwork and team performance. As it is known that different groups of health care professionals often tend to work in isolation, the authors compared the perceptions of knowledge integration. It can be expected...

...Michael A. West; Joanne Lyubovnikova Purpose The ubiquity and value of teams in healthcare are well acknowledged. However, in practice, healthcare teams vary dramatically in their structures and effectiveness in ways that can damage team processes and patient outcomes. The aim of this paper...

...Paul Hyland; Graydon Davison; Terry Sloan Palliative care is a complex environment in which teams of healthcare professionals are constantly challenged to match the configuration of care delivery to suit the dynamics of the patient's bio‐medical, social and spiritual situations as they change...

...Hadyn Ingram; Terry Desombre It is becoming more difficult to provide health care that meets the needs of patients within tight budget constraints. This article suggests that one way forward is to channel the energies of people more constructively to work as teams. Some definitions are shown...

... ‐ multiskilling and cross‐training ‐ including staff activity in conventional hospitals and PFC units, in depth. Discusses the structure of PFC teams and their management. Describes the main components of the fourth PFC element ‐ integrated carepaths ‐ and explores their role in clinical audit, computerization...

...Donald Ramsay; Donald R. Coid A research partnership was formed between Fife Regional Council′s Social Work Department, Fife Health Board and the Dementia Services Development Centre and Social Work Research Centre of Stirling University, to investigate the multi‐disciplinary dementia teams which...