Teamwork interventions may positively affect hospital climate for nurses but do not improve patient outcomes

A pragmatic controlled trial by a team from Northwestern University has found that interventions to redesign care for hospitalized medical patients helped to improve the perceived level of teamwork from nurses’ perspectives, but did not seem to affect patient outcomes. According to the authors, health care leaders should consider these findings in the context of their improvement priorities before implementing similar interventions. The study is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.