Characterizing Teamwork in Cardiovascular Care Outcomes: A Network Analytics Approach.
Characterizing Teamwork in Cardiovascular Care Outcomes: A Network Analytics Approach.
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DOI:
10.1161/circoutcomes.116.003041
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发表时间:
2016-11
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Soulakis ND
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Carson MB;Scholtens DM;Frailey CN;Gravenor SJ;Powell ES;Wang AY;Kricke GS;Ahmad FS;Mutharasan RK;Soulakis ND
The nature of teamwork in healthcare is complex and interdisciplinary, and provider collaboration based on shared patient encounters is crucial to its success. Characterizing the intensity of working relationships with risk adjusted patient outcomes supplies insight into provider interactions in a hospital environment. We extracted four years of patient, provider, and activity data for encounters in an inpatient cardiology unit from Northwestern Medicine’s Enterprise Data Warehouse. We then created a provider-patient network to identify healthcare providers who jointly participated in patient encounters and calculated satisfaction rates for provider-provider pairs. We demonstrated the application of a novel parameter, the Shared Positive Outcome Ratio (SPOR), an objective composite measure that quantifies a given pair’s concentration of positive outcomes over a set of shared patients. We compared an observed collaboration network of 334 providers and 3,453 relationships to 1,000 networks with SPOR scores based on randomized outcomes and found 188 collaborative relationships between pairs of providers that showed significantly higher than expected patient satisfaction ratings. A group of 22 providers performed exceptionally in terms of patient satisfaction. Our results indicate high variability in collaboration scores across the network and highlight our ability to identify relationships with both higher and lower than expected scores across a set of shared patient encounters. Satisfaction rates appear to vary across different teams of providers. Team collaboration can be quantified using a composite measure of collaboration across provider pairs. Tracking provider pair outcomes over a sufficient set of shared encounters may inform quality improvement strategies, such as optimizing team staffing, identifying characteristics and practices of high-performing teams, developing evidence-based team guidelines, and redesigning inpatient care processes.