High Performance Team

Health care providers are constantly seeking ways to improve their methods of sharing information among each other. There is a need for more consistency accuracy throughout the system. Thus, the need for patient-centered multispecialty teams becomes ever more important as health care providers and organizations strive to deliver the best care possible. (Sollecito 123) Teams will consist of healthcare providers, caregivers, and the patient to ensure that their best interest is being address. Medical errors can be defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim. Among the problems that commonly occur during the course of providing health care are adverse drug events and improper transfusions, surgical injuries and wrong-site surgery, suicides, restraint-related injuries or death, falls, burns, pressure ulcers, and mistaken patient identities. High error rates with serious consequences are most likely to occur in intensive care units, operating rooms, and emergency departments. Treatment Error in the performance of an operation, procedure, or test error are costly in terms of loss of trust in the health care system by patients and diminished satisfaction by both patients and health professionals. Strategies for Improvement achieve a better safety record, the report recommends a four-tiered approach: Establishing a national focus to create leadership, research, tools, and protocols to enhance the knowledge base about safety. In the hospital setting some communication channels are: Face-to-face, telephone, zone phone, pagers, overhead paging system, intercom, computer, whiteboards and poster boards
With healthcare providers sharing information and using the electronic medical records, patients have access and can share in making decisions about their own healthcare.