22 Groups in Medicine

Franziska Tschan, Sandra Keller, Stephan U. Marsch, Guido Beldi, and Norbert K. Semmer

DOI: 10.4324/9781003227458-25

Chapter Objectives

  • Familiarize the reader with concepts related to teamwork discussed in research on teams in medicine.

  • Compare three typical teams in medicine – ward teams, ad-hoc emergency teams, and surgical teams – with regard to temporal stability, skill and authority differentiation, task requirements, and the resulting challenges for collaboration and communication.

Introduction

This chapter begins with a brief history of medical team research and introduces common concepts in this field. We then discuss three prototypical healthcare teams using Hollenbeck et al.'s (2012) dimensions, which include ...

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