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Bridging the Team Communication Gap, an Essential Step in the Medical Organizational Cultures
Bridging the Team Communication Gap, an Essential Step in the Medical Organizational Cultures

Author(s): Andreea Alexandra Hleșcu, Bianca Hanganu, Irina Smaranda Manoilescu, Andreea Elena Bîrlescu, Valentin Petre Ciudin, Beatrice Gabriela Ioan
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare
Published by: Center for Socio-Economic Studies and Multiculturalism
Keywords: communication; medical team; patient; benefits; barriers; solutions;

Summary/Abstract: Effective communication is the foundation of a good quality medical practice that generates benefits for patients and their families and, implicitly, is an essential part of the satisfaction of the work of medical staff. In contemporary medicine, healthcare is, in most cases, provided by medical teams, therefore collaboration and communication between its members is essential. In this paper, the authors discuss the benefits of effective collaboration and communication among medical team members as well as barriers that may arise in certain clinical situations and contexts. The authors also analyze some solutions which were implemented in medical settings for improving communication and collaboration among medical team members, starting from the example of interventions in aviation teams

  • Issue Year: 2/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 79-85
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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