TY - JOUR
T1 - Interprofessional/interdisciplinary teamwork during the early COVID-19 pandemic
T2 - experience from a children’s hospital within an academic health center
AU - Natale, Jo Anne E.
AU - Boehmer, Judie
AU - Blumberg, Dean A.
AU - Dimitriades, Constantine
AU - Hirose, Shinjiro
AU - Kair, Laura R.
AU - Kirk, J. Douglas
AU - Mateev, Stephanie N.
AU - McKnight, Heather
AU - Plant, Jennifer
AU - Tzimenatos, Leah S.
AU - Wiedeman, Jean T.
AU - Witkowski, Jessica
AU - Underwood, Mark A.
AU - Lakshminrusimha, Satyan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has created multiple, complex and intense demands on hospitals, including the need for surge planning in the many locations outside epicenters such as northern Italy or New York City. We here describe such surge planning in an Academic Health Center that encompasses a children’s hospital. Interprofessional teams from every aspect of inpatient care and hospital operations worked to prepare for a COVID-19 surge. In so doing, they successfully innovated ways to integrate pediatric and adult care and maximize bed capacity. The success of this intense collaborative effort offers an opportunity for ongoing teamwork to enhance efficient, effective, and high-quality patient care.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has created multiple, complex and intense demands on hospitals, including the need for surge planning in the many locations outside epicenters such as northern Italy or New York City. We here describe such surge planning in an Academic Health Center that encompasses a children’s hospital. Interprofessional teams from every aspect of inpatient care and hospital operations worked to prepare for a COVID-19 surge. In so doing, they successfully innovated ways to integrate pediatric and adult care and maximize bed capacity. The success of this intense collaborative effort offers an opportunity for ongoing teamwork to enhance efficient, effective, and high-quality patient care.
KW - Interprofessional collaboration
KW - multidisciplinary
KW - partnership
KW - shared problem solving
KW - team effectiveness
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U2 - 10.1080/13561820.2020.1791809
DO - 10.1080/13561820.2020.1791809
M3 - Article
C2 - 32674638
AN - SCOPUS:85088034693
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Journal of Interprofessional Care
JF - Journal of Interprofessional Care
SN - 1356-1820
ER -