Impact of Relational Coordination on Quality of Care, Postoperative Pain and Functioning, and Length of Stay

Hoffer Gittell, Jody; M. Fairfield, Kathleen; Bierbaum, Benjamin; C. Head, William; W. Jackson, Robert; Kelly, Michael; S. Laskin, Richard; J. Lipson, Stephen; M. Siliski, John; Thornhill, Thomas; D. Zuckerman, Joseph

doi:10.1097/00005650-200008000-00005

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Impact of Relational Coordination on Quality of Care, Postoperative Pain and Functioning, and Length of Stay

Published in Medical Care • Aug 1, 2000

Authors:

Jody Hoffer Gittell

Kathleen M. Fairfield

Benjamin Bierbaum

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Health care organizations face pressures from patients to improve the quality of care and clinical outcomes, as well as pressures from managed care to do so more efficiently. Coordination, the management of task interdependencies, is one way that health care organizations have attempted ...

Subject

Interdependence

Medicine

WOMAC

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