Table 3.

The strategic fitness matrix of multidisciplinary health care teams for maximizing therapeutic success

	Three dimensions of therapeutic success
Team capacities that contribute to maximizing therapeutic success:	(1) Efficiency by achieving biological goals, such as diagnose, prevent, cure, rehabilitate, or palliate disease (“Do therapy right”)	(2) Effectiveness by achieving social goals such as satisfying guidelines, values, or ethical demands (“Do right therapy”)	(3) Motivation by achieving psychological goals such as emotional support, or patients’ identification with therapy (“Do therapy that feels right”)
Team member	Team of professionals who share a common purpose and who understand their own and the others’ role, function, and responsibility	Team of professionals with high communicative, social, legal, and ethical competence, and respect for other team members, and democratic style of decision making	Team of professionals who have a strong own motivation, have team spirit, confidence, trust, to motivate the entire team
Structure	Organizational structures that provide team with resources, equipment, physical environment to reduce risks and errors, and to support the team’s medical performance	Organizational structures that support trustful team relationships, that teach, train, and support communicative, legal and ethical standards for all team members	Organizational structures such as human resource management and leadership that support intrinsic motivation of team members in the team
Meaning	A shared enthusiasm for medical excellence through team effort	A shared focus on patients and on ethical values	A team with high motivation that enkindles their patients