How the jazz medium can inform interprofessional health care teams in improving patient care

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ID21448899
AuthorsPhillip L Pearl (0000-0002-6373-1068, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, corresponding author), Larrie Greenberg (0000-0002-7341-615X, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA)
Year2020
Volume42
Issue12
Pages1337-1342
Publication date2020-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Teacher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0142-159X • E-ISSN: 1466-187X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0142159x.2020.1805102
PMID32805158
OpenAlexW3060406907
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

INTRODUCTION: Interprofessional Health Care Teams (IPHCTs) are essential to provide cost-effective and efficient care to patients with complex illnesses, requiring the skills and expertise of many health care professionals. The jazz medium presents an instructive non-medical analogy. METHODS: We present evidence-based models to compare how effective groups perform in both health care teams and jazz ensembles. RESULTS: The jazz ensemble has implicit dependence on the salient features of leadership, individual attributes, creativity, synchronization, comprehension, communication, self-improvement, group dynamics, and economy of means. CONCLUSIONS: Features of jazz parallel those of the IPHCT and inform medicine how teams can thrive at the highest levels, using characteristics attributed to effective team functioning. Incorporating jazz educators and their approaches to music into IPHCT training may be a strategy to improve patient outcomes

Health care · Jazz · Medical education · Political science · Empathy and Medical Education · History · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Medicine · Music Therapy and Health · Nursing · Psychology

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