Doctor and nurse perception of inter-professional co-operation in hospitals. |
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Authors: | Unni Krogstad Dag Hofoss Per Hjortdahl |
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Institution: | University of Oslo, Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, Norway. unni.krogstad@nhsrc.no |
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Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To explore doctor and nurse perception of inter-professional co-operation in hospitals; discuss professional differences as reflections of cultural diversity in the perspective of quality improvement. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey data from a stratified sample of 15 Norwegian hospitals, September 1998: 551 doctors and 2050 nurses at medical and surgical wards. Measures. Doctor and nurse evaluation of their inter-professional co-operation was mapped. Logistic regression models predicting their satisfaction were compared. RESULTS: Doctors were significantly more often than nurses satisfied with the inter-professional co-operation of the two groups. Satisfaction with inter-professional co-operation was predicted by a number of work situation variables. Some of them contribute differently to doctor and nurse satisfaction. CONCLUSIONS: Doctors and nurses not only evaluate their inter-professional co-operation differently, they also appear to define the concept in different ways. Hospital managers should include an understanding of this cultural diversity into the basis of their quality improvement efforts. |
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Keywords: | doctor nurse co-operation hospital care quality hospital work organization professional cultures |
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