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Benefits and losses: a qualitative study exploring healthcare staff perceptions of teamworking
1Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. s.k.baxter@sheffield.ac.uk
Objectives:
To examine staff perceptions of teamworking practice in the field of stroke care.
Design:
Qualitative interview study.
Setting:
Three teams providing care to patients with stroke across a typical care pathway of acute hospital ward, specialist stroke unit, and community rehabilitation.
Participants:
37 staff members from a range of professions.
Main Outcome Measures:
Healthcare staff perceptions of teamworking.
Results:
Through detailed coding and analysis of the transcripts, five perceptions regarding the impact of teamworking on staff and patients were identified. These were: (1) mutual staff support, (2) knowledge and skills sharing, (3) timely intervention/discharge, (4) reduced individual decision-making and responsibility and (5) impact on patient contact time.
Conclusions:
Teamworking practice may be associated with a number of perceived benefits for staff and patient care; however, the potential for losses resulting from reduced patient contact time and ill-defined responsibility needs further investigation.
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