High-performance teams and the physician leader: an overview.

Aalap Majmudar; Anshu K Jain; Joseph Chaudry; Richard W Schwartz

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High-performance teams and the physician leader: an overview.

September 22, 2010

Majmudar A, Jain AK, Chaudry J, et al. J Surg Educ. 2010;67(4):205-9.

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This commentary discusses principles of teamwork, describes a model of teamwork and how to apply it to high-performance teams in health care, and explains the physician leader's role in ensuring team success.

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