Team management, multidisciplinary

Team composition Multidisciplinary, including full range of PSM customers," i.e., facility management, process safety, engineering, research and development, occupational health and safety, others to be determined. [Who]... 

Pharmacists can play an important role in the multidisciplinary team management of heart failure. Compared with conventional treatment, pharmacist intervention that included medication evaluation and therapeutic recommendations, patient education, and follow-up telephone monitoring reduced hospitalizations for heart failure. Adherence to guideline-recommended therapy was improved by pharmacist intervention. Thus the role and cost benefits of pharmacist involvement in the multidisciplinary care of heart failure... 

The modern approach to occupational health and safety is much broader and more inclusive. Teams are multidisciplinary and address mental and social needs of workers in addition to their physical needs. Teams may include a physician, nurse, social worker, psychologist, occupational hygienist, and toxicologist. Programs on topics such as stress management... 

Are multidisciplinary teams employed to manage product realization and production phases ... 

A multidisciplinary approach is another term for a cross-functional team or a project team. Such teams comprise representatives from each line and staff department so that decisions are taken close to the development work by those who will need to implement the decisions or verify their implementation. Such teams facilitate communication and overcome delays that often occur when reliant upon line-staff relationships. If you have adopted the project management approach this requirement is not additional to that in clause 4.2.4.1. 

While a multidisciplinary team approach is ideally suited to PSM design and installation, it is not the only way. PSM goals can be achieved through the efforts of a single professional, or a small homogeneous task group (for example, facility managers or safety specialists) the process is essentially the same as described here, but on a smaller, more limited scale. 

Skeletal sarcomas can be largely divided into osteosarcomas on one hand and the Ewings family of sarcomas, including peripheral neuro-ectodermal tumors or PNETs, on the other hand. Both groups share a sensitivity to chemotherapy and need to be managed by multidisciplinary teams to optimize potential curability. 

The assessment and treatment of autistic disorder and other pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) requires a multidisciplinary team approach. Initial interventions are largely based on educational programming and behavior management principles, particularly for preschool- and school-aged children and adolescents. Speech therapy is usually essential and physical and occupational therapy are often needed as well. Despite these extensive therapeutic efforts, many children, adolescents, and adults with PDDs remain significantly impaired. Under these conditions, drug treatment is often necessary and appropriate. 

In many companies, the scale-up process may include or overlap with the validation process. In any case, demonstration of the process in the production environment at full scale, using the materials, equipment, procedures, and personnel established in production, is required. Often, multidisciplinary teams are arranged to manage the scale-up, and the overall roles and responsibilities for those involved with the product may change. Typically, extensive documentation, including protocols and reports, is involved, as... 

In addition to creating a management structure which facilitates productive work, attention also needs to be given to what is called multidisciplinary team building . In writing about mental-handicap teams, Ash and Woods comment ... 

The therapist can play a vital role in the multidisciplinary team approach. As more such teams are formed (by mandate or by choice), there will be increasing need for therapists who have some understanding of the physiology of pain, its medical management, and the therapist s role in helping the patient develop the cognitive skills needed to contain an errant nervous system and still live a full life. 

Secondary consequences of neurological disability include painful shoulder, shoulder-hand syndrome, contractures and falls. Physiotherapists and other members of the multidisciplinary team should have expertise in managing these problems. 

Critical pathways, also known as clinical pathways or care maps, are tools of patient care management that are created by multidisciplinary teams, which are intended to lead to the most desirable patient outcome in the most desirable time frame. These programs prespecify what procedures, lab tests, medications, and dietary and exercise needs a patient should receive during a hospitalization for a specific time. There exists evidence that programs that focus on knee-replacement therapy and community-acquired pneumonia are... 

Our emergency plans were revamped. SOMC realized that all departments had not been considered when the previous plans were developed, and parts of the plan were ineffective. A multidisciplinary team met monthly for 1 year to revise all the emergency plans. This team consisted of a variety of staff including nursing, maintenance, housekeeping, laundry, physician offices, management, and front-line staff. These updated plans have worked well both in drills and real events. 

As a result of these observations, a variety of methods have been utilized to modify antimicrobial use in an effort to combat resistance. These include the use of an antimicrobial formulary, re.striction of agents, requirement of prior approval to obtain specific agents, multidisciplinary antibiotic management teams, and the use of computerized support systems. The impact of these programs on resistance is reviewed elsewhere,and one or more of these methods is being employed in many institutions. 

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