Teamwork techniques are widely exploited across all professionals, which is recognized as an essential tool for optimizing the efficiency of the whole team. Especially in healthcare, teamwork plays a crucial role, since it could not only facilitate the productivity of the workforce, but also improve the quality of the service that would be delivering to patients. On the other hand, poor teamwork could threat the patient’s safety as it increases the possibility of occurrence of medical errors and potential adverse events. Therefore, effective teamwork is an indispensable segment in complex health system to avoid miscommunication among health practitioners and patients, and misunderstanding of roles and responsibilities (Babiker et al., 2014).
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Those members within a team who own specific skills and knowledge, carry various responsibilities. In healthcare system, the health practitioners lead by a coordinated and disciplined team, work collaboratively to accomplish the patient’s desire and deliver the high-quality care. Communication plays a significant role not only for health providers as a tool to share their observations, opinions and expertise, but also for patient so that the health practitioners could understand their requirement thoroughly through communication, so that optimize the healthcare service. As a result of that, poor teamwork and inadequate communication among team members could lead to serious medical errors and potential adverse events (Babiker et al., 2014). Therefore, high-standard and safe healthcare service is highly depended on the effective teamwork …show more content…
139), it states that teamwork failures account for up to “70-80 percent of serious medical errors”. Thus it can be seen that poor teamwork not only lowers the quality of the delivery of healthcare service, but also results in fatal consequences to patients. Consequently, teamwork plays an essential role in a multidisciplinary healthcare system to minimize medical errors. Within the radiology department, the radiographer and radiologist work closely and collectively to diagnose the patient properly and correctly. Essentially, the radiologist could never interpret the images thoroughly and write the diagnostic report correctly unless the radiographer takes a high quality image that shows information explicitly. Thus, teamwork is really vital to promote efficiency and prevent from misdiagnosis. As statistics demonstrates, teamwork under interprofessional collaboration led to a huge reduction in clinical error rate from “30.9% to 4.4% over a one-year period” trial (Babiker et al.,
Those members within a team who own specific skills and knowledge, carry various responsibilities. In healthcare system, the health practitioners lead by a coordinated and disciplined team, work collaboratively to accomplish the patient’s desire and deliver the high-quality care. Communication plays a significant role not only for health providers as a tool to share their observations, opinions and expertise, but also for patient so that the health practitioners could understand their requirement thoroughly through communication, so that optimize the healthcare service. As a result of that, poor teamwork and inadequate communication among team members could lead to serious medical errors and potential adverse events (Babiker et al., 2014). Therefore, high-standard and safe healthcare service is highly depended on the effective teamwork …show more content…
139), it states that teamwork failures account for up to “70-80 percent of serious medical errors”. Thus it can be seen that poor teamwork not only lowers the quality of the delivery of healthcare service, but also results in fatal consequences to patients. Consequently, teamwork plays an essential role in a multidisciplinary healthcare system to minimize medical errors. Within the radiology department, the radiographer and radiologist work closely and collectively to diagnose the patient properly and correctly. Essentially, the radiologist could never interpret the images thoroughly and write the diagnostic report correctly unless the radiographer takes a high quality image that shows information explicitly. Thus, teamwork is really vital to promote efficiency and prevent from misdiagnosis. As statistics demonstrates, teamwork under interprofessional collaboration led to a huge reduction in clinical error rate from “30.9% to 4.4% over a one-year period” trial (Babiker et al.,