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Factors Influencing Teamwork in Health Care Cover
Open Access
|Jun 2017

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse different views on interpersonal relations and team composition among managers and medical professionals with respect to the transition of professional roles in healthcare in Poland. To achieve that goal, a description based on a quantitative and qualitative questionnaire was conducted. Since the questionnaire covered various areas of health care, only its small fraction was used for the analysis. The main result is that most of the medical professionals and medical managers consider technology to be the single most important external factor influencing the team work efficiency and team composition in health care, and the managers consider skillset as the crucial factor determining whether a person would be a good team member. Based on the literature on professional roles in health care and their evolution in recent years, one can assume that constant development and lifelong learning would play a significant role in the healthcare systems reform. The findings are an important contribution to the discussion of the healthcare reform and its possible directions in future years as well a reference point for policy makers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/emj-2017-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2543-912X | Journal ISSN: 2543-6597
Language: English
Page range: 90 - 96
Submitted on: Dec 30, 2016
Accepted on: Jun 5, 2017
Published on: Jun 23, 2017
Published by: Bialystok University of Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2017 Michał Mijal, Małgorzata Winter, published by Bialystok University of Technology
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