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Interprofessional Barriers: A Study of Quality Improvement Work Among Nurses and Physicians
Nomie Eriksson1, Tomas Müllern
1School of Business, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden (Dr Eriksson); and Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden (Dr Müllern).
Quality Management in Health Care
|April 5, 2017
Abstract:
This article studies interprofessional barriers between nurses and physicians in the context of quality improvement work. A total of 17 nurses and 10 physicians were interviewed at 2 hospitals in Sweden. The study uncovered a number of barriers relating to both the relative status of each group and their defined areas of responsibility.