Information Sharing in Interdisciplinary Team Meetings: An Evaluation of Hospice Goals
- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Qualitative Health Research
- Vol. 15 (10), 1377-1391
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732305282857
Abstract
The author observed interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings of “Town Hospice” to examine how the company goal of providing for the “psychosocial needs of the patient and their loved ones” is addressed. More specifically, she used an ethnographic approach to explore how case managers negotiate the addition of psychosocial information about patients during IDT meetings. She found that psychosocial information on patients was primarily limited to three types of information sharing: (a) information related to care goals, (b) family issues related to bereavement and caretaking, and (c) the request of additional help from team members. Furthermore, she understood that the addition of psychosocial information creates a dialectical tension for the team.Keywords
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