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Team working: palliative care as a model of interdisciplinary practice
Author(s) -
Crawford Gregory B,
Price Sharonne D
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05575.x
Subject(s) - palliative care , teamwork , nursing , decision maker , medicine , psychology , management science , management , engineering , economics
Teamwork is an integral part of the philosophy of palliative care. Cross‐functional, interdisciplinary teams offer benefits to patients, practitioners and specialist areas of care. Leadership of teams can be difficult. With shared responsibilities, more than the sum of the competencies of team members can be offered. In palliative care the final decision‐maker is the patient.