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  • Team Dynamics
  • Critical Care Medicine

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  • Intensive care units (ICUs) manage severely ill patients, increasingly relying on interprofessional teams.
  • ICU teams face challenges like low temporal stability and demanding environments.
  • Effective teamwork is vital but not well understood in the ICU context.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the literature on interprofessional teamwork in ICUs.
  • To identify factors influencing ICU team performance and outcomes.
  • To highlight knowledge gaps and future research needs in ICU team science.

Main Methods:

  • A comprehensive review of existing literature on ICU teamwork.
  • Analysis of team structure, dynamics, and performance factors.
  • Identification of barriers and facilitators to effective ICU team functioning.

Main Results:

  • Information sharing and decision-making are critical for ICU team success.
  • Barriers include poor conflict management and competing goals.
  • Low team stability and challenging environments impact performance.

Conclusions:

  • More research is needed to link ICU team structure to patient and hospital outcomes.
  • Defining the ICU team and understanding psychosocial impacts are key research areas.
  • Developing interventions to improve ICU team-based care is essential for critically ill patients.