Best-practice guidelines for utilizing facilitators

It appears that the majority of hospitals and other health care organizations use facilitators in team development. While some organizations use facilitators more extensively than others, facilitators appear to serve pivotal roles for teamwork in most health care organizations. A review of the literature, however, suggests that there is no clear consensus regarding the best way to use facilitators. This lack of consensus is, in part, due to the lack of clear best-practice guidelines for utilizing facilitators in health care. The purpose of this article is to provide such guidelines.