Barriers and Facilitators of Common Ground in Critical Care Teams

摘要

Effective collaboration among multi-disciplinary clinical team members has been recognized as a criticalcomponent of safe and high quality patient care. There are a variety of systems and procedures in place;however that can impede collaboration by impairing the team’s ability to develop and maintain commonground. The current study was an exploratory effort that included an investigation of collaboration in thecritical care environment. Direct observations in two urban Intensive Care Units and Cognitive TaskAnalysis (CTA) interviews with members of the critical care teams highlighted several factors that cancontribute to the breakdown of common ground within the critical care team, as well as strategies that canbe used to facilitate and support maintenance of common ground.