1. Interprofessional/interdisciplinary teamwork during the early COVID-19 pandemic: experience from a children’s hospital within an academic health center
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JoAnne E Natale, Laura R. Kair, Dean A. Blumberg, Constantine Dimitriades, Heather McKnight, Jean T. Wiedeman, Satyan Lakshminrusimha, Mark A. Underwood, Shinjiro Hirose, Jessica Witkowski, J. Douglas Kirk, Stephanie N. Mateev, Judie K. Boehmer, Leah Tzimenatos, and Jennifer Plant
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Team effectiveness ,Betacoronavirus ,03 medical and health sciences ,Organizational Case Studies ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Multidisciplinary approach ,Pandemic ,Humans ,Center (algebra and category theory) ,Health Workforce ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Sociology ,Cooperative Behavior ,Pandemics ,media_common ,Patient Care Team ,Academic Medical Centers ,Teamwork ,030504 nursing ,Inpatient care ,SARS-CoV-2 ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,Hospitals, Pediatric ,Italy ,General partnership ,Interdisciplinary Communication ,New York City ,Coronavirus Infections ,0305 other medical science - Abstract
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.
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- 2020
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