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Leading Innovation in Transdisciplinary Care
Abstract
Background: Benefits of effective team-based working in healthcare settings are well established, with the ultimate form being transdisciplinary teams. Achieving transdisciplinary teams at the large organization or system level has not been extensively studied. Purpose: To examine and describe exemplar organizations where transdisciplinary working was enabled and that can be reproduced in other organizations. Methods: An expert panel reached consensus on three healthcare organizations in the United States that exemplified transdisciplinary working. Available public information about each organization was reviewed and site visits with direct observation and interviews were conducted with two of the three exemplar sites (the third completed remotely due to the onset of COVID-19). The process of immersion-crystallization was used to review the collated material and to identify key themes that were then repeatedly checked with the expert panel. Results: Clear and consistent themes were identified across all three organizations, although they each arrived at these commonalities via distinctly different routes. All had a clear and shared creation story as to how they came about as an entity, which was supported by consistent longitudinal leadership. This enabled an environment whereby each organization created its own language that reflected their culture as an organization, thus continually reinforcing the uniqueness of their organization.
AH24089 Accepted 20 September 2024
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