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Lori Fewster-Thuente1, Barbara Velsor-Friedrich
1Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA. llfewster@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Interdisciplinary collaboration has the capacity to affect both healthcare providers and patients. Research has shown that the lack of communication and collaboration may be responsible for as much as 70% of the adverse events currently reported. The purpose of this article is 2-fold: to examine factors that may influence interdisciplinary collaboration and consequently patient outcomes and to examine the relationship between interdisciplinary collaboration and King's theory of goal attainment as a theory to support the phenomenon of interdisciplinary collaboration.
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