Table 1.
Context and Setting | Coordination Mechanisms | Emergent Integrating Conditions | Coordinating Actions | Outcomes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Within teams |
• Team composition • Experience and history • Power distribution • Resources |
• Plans, rules, and tools • Objects, representations, artifacts, and information systems • Roles (e.g., who contacts patients and how) • Routines • Proximity |
• Accountability • Predictability • Common understanding • Trust |
• Situation monitoring • Communication • Back-up behavior |
• Patients (e.g., patient experience, quality of life, survival) • Health care teams (e.g., job satisfaction) • Health systems (e.g., acute care utilization, costs) |
Between teams |
• Multiteam system composition • Linkages between teams • Alignment of organizational cultures/ climates • Governance and payment structure |
• Boundary spanning • Information exchange • Collective problem-solving and decision-making • Negotiation • Mutual adjustment |
Original framework by Weaver et al. (2018)10