How familiar are clinician team mates?

Lack of familiarity between teammates is linked to worsened safety in high risk settings. The emergency department (ED) is a high risk healthcare setting where unfamiliar teams are created by diversity in clinician shift schedules and flexibility in clinician movement across the department. Dr Ellen Weber speaks to Dr Daniel Patterson about his research to characterise familiarity between clinician teammates in one urban teaching hospital ED over a 22 week study period.

Read the full paper: http://emj.bmj.com/content/32/4/258.full?sid=f47dc6b9-deef-4a61-a77a-342ea713262b