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Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Teamwork in Geriatrics

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Experience has taught us that the complex health care needs of frail elderly patients demand knowledge, skills, and expertise that no single health care discipline alone can provide. It is likely that in addition to physicians and nurses, the skills of social workers, physical therapists, dietiticians, pharmacists, and psychologists will be required. Furthermore, these health care professionals also may use the resources of other providers through consultative relationships. From this broad-based collaborative arrangement among health care professionals, the concept of the interdisciplinary geriatric team has developed. These teams bring together health providers from a variety of disciplines to assess, treat, and monitor the health status of elderly patients with multiple, complex, interacting problems.1–4

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  1. Section of General Internal Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 60637, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Christine K. Cassel M.D. (Chief) (Chief)

  2. Journal of the American Medical Association, 60610, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Donald E. Riesenberg M.D. (Senior Editor, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine) (Senior Editor, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine)

  3. Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 60637, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Donald E. Riesenberg M.D. (Senior Editor, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine) (Senior Editor, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine)

  4. Department of Medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 60637, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Leif B. Sorensen M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Chief) (Associate Chief)

  5. Geriatric Medicine, Portland V.A. Medical Center, 97207, Portland, Oregon, USA

    John R. Walsh M.D. (Chief) (Chief)

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Tsukuda, R.A. (1990). Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Teamwork in Geriatrics. In: Cassel, C.K., Riesenberg, D.E., Sorensen, L.B., Walsh, J.R. (eds) Geriatric Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2093-8_52

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