Multidisciplinary team

A group of healthcare professionals from different disciplines who coordinate care for a patient or population. Members contribute distinct expertise toward shared care goals.

Interprofessional collaboration: Healthcare professionals from different disciplines work together with patients and families to deliver coordinated care. Describes the collaborative practice that turns separate professional contributions into shared care.
Health professions: Occupations whose practitioners prevent, diagnose, treat, or support health and wellbeing. The team draws its membership from distinct professions with different scopes of practice.
Primary care: First-contact, accessible healthcare that addresses common needs and coordinates further care. Primary care teams combine clinical and social expertise around ongoing community needs.
Interdisciplinary team: A team whose members integrate disciplinary knowledge to develop shared assessments and plans. It emphasizes combining perspectives more deeply than a team that coordinates distinct contributions.
Shared decision-making: A process in which clinicians and patients make healthcare decisions together using evidence and patient preferences. Team recommendations can be weighed against the patient's values and preferences.
Scope of practice: The activities a regulated health professional is educated, authorized, and competent to perform. Defined scopes clarify which team member can undertake particular assessments and interventions.
Palliative care: Care that improves quality of life for people with serious illness through symptom relief and psychosocial support. Its physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs often require several disciplines.
Transdisciplinary team: A team that integrates professional knowledge and may share or cross traditional role boundaries. It extends integration beyond the usual division of expertise within multidisciplinary work.
Care coordination: The deliberate organization of healthcare activities among participants involved in a patient's care. The team aligns services and handoffs across professionals and settings.
Clinical leadership: The influence and direction clinicians provide to improve care and guide healthcare teams. Leadership helps the team set priorities and resolve coordination problems.

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