Effective team communication during interdisciplinary rounds (IDRs) is a hallmark of safe, efficient, patient-centered care. However, there is limited understanding of optimal IDR structures and proce...
This study aimed to analyze direct observations of physician and nurse interactions during bedside IDR to identify behaviors associated with increased interprofessional communication....
Trained observers audited general medicine ward rounds at an academic medical center using a standardized tool to record physician and nurse behavior and communication in 1007 patient encounters in Oc...
There were significant differences in physician and nurse interaction time among physicians with different levels of training, with attendings demonstrating higher interaction time than residents (5.4...
Implementing IDR structures and procedures that promote attending physician involvement, physician initiative, and early nurse participation could optimize interdisciplinary communication and quality ...
Communication with patients is challenging, especially in radiation oncology. Therefore, radiation oncology is particularly suited to sensitize medical students for this topic and to train them compet...
The course, funded as an innovative teaching project by the medical faculty, was offered as an optional course for medical students in 2019 and again in 2022 after a pandemic-related break. The curric...
So far, 30 students (all at least in the seventh semester or higher) have participated in the teaching project. The most frequent reasons for participation were the desire to acquire competence in bre...
Although the evaluation results cannot be generalized to the entirety of medical students due to the limited number of voluntary participants, the very positive evaluation shows the need for such proj...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ+) persons with serious illness and their families often experience end-of-life (EOL) care disparities, such as homophobia and trans...
Interdisciplinary clinicians (n = 150) who participated in a national 3-day communication training program, rooted in Adult Learning Theory and supported by the National Cancer Institute, responded to...
Participants from nursing (48%), social work (35%) and chaplaincy (17%) responded to the survey. Five themes emerged: 1) provision of patient-centered care; 2) legal and ethical factors inform care an...
LGBTQ + inclusive communication training is essential for all palliative clinicians to deliver culturally safe care. Our findings have implications for identifying unconscious bias, addressing discrim...
Investigators sought to determine how family caregivers' psychological and physical wellbeing influenced their perceptions of communication with hospice providers....
Researchers conducted a secondary analysis of quantitative data generated during two multisite randomized clinical trials of supportive interventions for hospice family caregivers. Caregivers' (N = 52...
Caregivers' anxious symptoms, depressive symptoms, and physical quality of life were largely unrelated to caregivers' perceptions of their communication with hospice providers when adjusted for demogr...
Variation in caregivers' perceptions of their communication with hospice providers was not well explained by caregiver wellbeing. Additional research is needed to understand if and how caregivers' per...
Interdisciplinary communication and collaboration are crucial in the care of people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) yet are often experienced as insufficient. Through the lens of complexity...
Poor interdisciplinary care team communication has been associated with increased mortality. The study aimed to define conditions for effective interdisciplinary care team communication....
An observational cross-sectional qualitative study....
A surgical intensive care unit in a large, urban, academic referral medical centre....
A total 6 interviews and 10 focus groups from February to June 2021 (N=33) were performed. Interdisciplinary clinicians who cared for critically ill patients were interviewed. Participants included in...
Conditions for effective interdisciplinary care team communication....
We identified five themes relating to conditions for effective interdisciplinary care team communication in our surgical intensive care unit setting: role definition, formal processes, informal commun...
Standardising communication and creating defined roles in formal processes can promote effective interdisciplinary care team communication by fostering psychological safety....
Prospective audit with feedback during infectious diseases ward rounds (IDWR) is a common antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practice on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). These interdisciplinary...
To showcase how applications of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology could help solve challenges in speech-language pathology practice with children with communication disability, and contrib...
ASR technologies have been developed to address the need for equitable, efficient, and accurate assessment and diagnosis of communication disability in children by automating the transcription and ana...
To advance equitable, efficient, and effective speech-language pathology services for children with communication disability, SLPs would benefit from integrating ASR solutions into their clinical prac...
The treatment of locally advanced lung cancer (LALC) with radiotherapy (RT) can be challenging. Multidisciplinary collaboration between radiologists and radiation oncologists (ROs) may optimize RT pla...
In this prospective clinical treatment trial (clinicaltrials.gov NCT04844736), 37 patients receiving definitive RT for LALC, six attending ROs, and three thoracic radiologists were consented and enrol...
Thirty-seven patients with lung cancer were enrolled, and 35 of 37 RT plans were reviewed. Of the 35 patients reviewed, mean age was 69 years. For 27 of 37 plans (73%), feedback was received within 4 ...
Interdisciplinary collaborative RT planning using a simplified workflow was feasible, produced no treatment delays, and prompted substantial changes in RT targets....
Interdisciplinary research is making a significant contribution to understanding metastasis - one of the grand challenges in cancer research. Examples drawn from apparently unconnected areas of physic...
