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Team huddles: the role of the primary care educator
Author(s) -
Fogarty Colleen T,
Schultz Stephen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the clinical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1743-498X
pISSN - 1743-4971
DOI - 10.1111/j.1743-498x.2010.00369.x
Subject(s) - health care , primary care , nursing , primary health care , ambulatory care , medicine , medical education , medline , psychology , family medicine , political science , law
Summary Background: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (USA) has recommended the ‘team huddle’ as one communication strategy to improve health care outcomes. Context: Although there is no literature on the extent of the practice within primary care fields, or the outcomes associated with it, anecdotal reports from innovative family medicine practices in the USA suggest that the team huddle has the potential to increase office efficiency, communication and staff satisfaction. Innovation and implications: We review considerations in applying the team huddle to practice, and provide recommendations for ambulatory health care educators to teach this technique to trainees.