Interprofessional care in intensive care settings and the factors that impact it: results from a scoping review of ethnographic studies.

Elise Paradis; Myles Leslie; Michael A. Gropper; Hanan J. Aboumatar; Simon Kitto; Scott Reeves

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Interprofessional care in intensive care settings and the factors that impact it: results from a scoping review of ethnographic studies.

September 4, 2013

Paradis E, Leslie M, Gropper MA, et al. J Crit Care. 2013;28(6):1062-7.

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This review found that little is still understood about the processes, relationships, and organizational factors that influence interprofessional teamwork in intensive care units.

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