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Team Management in Healthcare: Basics

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Developing effective teamwork is a critical part of improving quality of care. Here we present basic team management strategies and tools.

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street Phipps 160, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Solomon Rojhani

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  1. BALTIMORE, Maryland, USA

    Levi (Levan) Atanelov

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Rojhani, S. (2016). Team Management in Healthcare: Basics. In: Atanelov, L. (eds) Resident’s Handbook of Medical Quality and Safety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24190-6_27

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