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Informationen zum Autor Jill E. Thistlethwaite is Professor of Medical Education and Director of the Centre for Medical Education Research and Scholarship, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia. She is a practising general practitioner. Klappentext Discusses values from the perspective of different health care professionals and why teams and collaborations may succeed or fail. Zusammenfassung This title in the Values-Based Medicine series is aimed at practising and trainee health professionals aspiring to work collaboratively. It adds the dimension of values to more usual discussions of teamwork! considering how the interactions between health care professionals might be affected by differences in professional and personal values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Values-based practice in health care: setting the scene; 2. Teamwork and collaborative practice in modern health care; 3. Communication within teams and between professionals; Part II. Primary Care and the Primary Health Care Team: 4. A patient complaint: team meetings, policy and practice values - raising awareness in the team; 5. A well person health check, health promotion and disease prevention: different lifestyles, different values; 6. A patient with medically unexplained symptoms: applying evidence and values; 7. A request for strong analgesia: honesty and truth; 8. Asylum seekers and refugees: working across cultures; 9. A request for a home birth and other pregnancy related consultations; 10. Community-based care and the wider health care team Dawn Forman; 11. Ageing and end of life decisions; 12. Referrals and the interface between primary and secondary care: looking after 'our' patients; 13. Living with visible difference and valuing appearance; 14. Collaboration with other professionals: in and outside health care; 15. Learning in and about teams; Afterword; Index.
