Interprofessional collaboration is a cornerstone of safe patient care. Researchers surveyed inpatient nurses and physicians and found discordant perceptions of each others' roles as well as lower levels of trust in the other profession when compared to their own. Fostering a shared mental model and mutual trust are core components of teamwork training programs like TeamSTEPPS.

This article describes a checklist that reliably documented multidisciplinary rounding behaviors aimed at improving patient-centered care.

This article examines unique challenges and approaches for teamwork communication on a general medical unit, where team members are often physically separated in space and time.

This study found that if the first person entering a patient room performed safe hand hygiene practices, particularly the attending physician, other team members were more likely to wash their hands as well.

An educational intervention for emergency department nurses improved knowledge of safe medication administration principles, but did not reduce the actual incidence of medication errors.