Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Healthcare: Report

This report examines the critical role of effective and ineffective leadership in healthcare settings, emphasizing its impact on patient outcomes, staff morale, and the overall quality of care. It highlights the importance of clinical leadership in promoting efficiency, integrating healthcare services, and fostering a culture of patient safety. The report contrasts the benefits of transformational leadership with the negative consequences of poor leadership, such as medical errors, staff turnover, and burnout. Furthermore, the report explores the significant advantages of interdisciplinary collaboration, demonstrating how teamwork among healthcare professionals enhances patient safety, improves decision-making, reduces hospital stays, and optimizes resource utilization. The analysis references several studies to support the positive effects of collaboration on patient health, functional status, and satisfaction, ultimately leading to cost savings and improved care coordination.

Running head: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Health and well-being
Name of the student:
Name of the University:
Author’s note

1HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
1. Impact of effective or ineffective leadership on healthcare quality:
The health care setting is a highly demanding environment where challenges increase
because of escalating demand of services and high cost associated with care. Effective clinical
leadership is required to promote efficiency, integrate health care service and promote quality of
care in hospital setting. Effective clinical leadership involves presence of attributes in leaders
that helps to build relationship, motivate employees and clarify roles with team members (Sarto
& Veronesi, 2016). According to Daly et al. (2014), clinical leadership has been identified as a
driver of health service performance and active collaboration process with team leaders and other
inter-professional team helps in the reform process. High quality care is dependent on six
characteristics of safe, effective, reliable, patient-centered, efficient and equitable care and
clinical leaders are the individuals who motivate individuals to adapt those characteristics by
establishing a culture of patient safety and inspiring and retaining experiences staffs (Sfantou et
al., 2017).
In contrast to effective leadership, ineffective leadership has serious impact on quality of care
as well as patient outcomes. Poor leadership creates a situation of chaos in clinical setting and
leads to poor patient outcomes such as high rate of medical errors, staff turnover, stress and
burnout (Ford et al., 2016). Hence, as the planning and governance process and effective
integration of care is hampered due to poor leadership style, the focus should be to develop
effective clinical leaders with desirable characteristics of a transformational leadership style.
Such leadership can facilitate quality improvement initiatives in clinical setting.

2HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
2. Effect of interdisciplinary collaboration on quality and cost effectiveness in health
care:
Interdisciplinary collaboration is the coming together of health care professionals from
different expertise and sharing knowledge and skills to engage in shared decision making,
prevent errors, improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost associated with care. Effective
interdisciplinary collaboration in health care is critical to patient safety, improving decision
making and reducing the length of hospital stay for patient. The importance of interdisciplinary
collaboration is seen because of diversity in health care environment. As diverse patient groups
with different health needs and cultural values come to seek care, it is necessary for the inter-
professional medical team to coordinate among themselves to learn about patient needs and
implement care appropriately (Morley & Cashell, 2017).
The benefits of interprofessional collaboration has been widely explored in research study.
The study by Bergmo et al. (2015) investigated about nurse-physician collaboration process in a
Caribbean setting and found that effective communication process between team members
resulted in enhanced health care delivery and little opportunities of medical errors.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is a cost-effective process too as it directly influences patient
health, their functional status, satisfaction with care and utilization of health care resources.
Therefore, with the reduction in complications and length of hospital stay due to patient-centered
team work, the continuum of care is maintained and cost savings is also achieved. It is critical
that health care services make greater endeavour to train staffs regarding interprofessional team
work skills so that care coordination and quality of care is maintained.

3HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
References:
Bergmo, T. S., Berntsen, G. K., Dalbakk, M., & Rumpsfeld, M. (2015). The effectiveness and
cost effectiveness of the PAtient-Centred Team (PACT) model: study protocol of a
prospective matched control before-and-after study. BMC geriatrics, 15(1), 133.
Daly, J., Jackson, D., Mannix, J., Davidson, P. M., & Hutchinson, M. (2014). The importance of
clinical leadership in the hospital setting. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 6, 75-83.
Ford, K., Menchine, M., Burner, E., Arora, S., Inaba, K., Demetriades, D., & Yersin, B. (2016).
Leadership and teamwork in trauma and resuscitation. Western Journal of Emergency
Medicine, 17(5), 549.
Morley, L., & Cashell, A. (2017). Collaboration in health care. Journal of medical imaging and
radiation sciences, 48(2), 207-216.
Sarto, F., & Veronesi, G. (2016). Clinical leadership and hospital performance: assessing the
evidence base. BMC health services research, 16(2), 169.
Sfantou, D., Laliotis, A., Patelarou, A., Sifaki-Pistolla, D., Matalliotakis, M., & Patelarou, E.
(2017, October). Importance of leadership style towards quality of care measures in
healthcare settings: a systematic review. In Healthcare (Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 73).
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.