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health care teams  

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  • Communication processes within health care teams have played a significant role in patient care and patient outcomes and have become more important over time. The increasing need for team care is a result of greater complexity of medical treatments and technology, more specialization of care providers, a desire to address multiple elements of patient care by interconnected providers, the influence of accrediting organizations such as the Joint Commission, and newer forms of health care financing and delivery. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Communication; Health Care Teams]

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