Collaboration Among Multidisciplinary Medical Teams: Strategies and Challenges of Building Collaborative Teams to Improve Health Care

Abstract

Healthcare systems face many challenges, such as increasing population and the spread of chronic and infectious diseases, which hinder their ability to deliver healthcare services effectively. Recent technological advances may contribute to improving healthcare but may also pose new challenges to healthcare systems. Physicians often treat diseases individually, which limits the ability of the medical team to diagnose the disease and develop a comprehensive treatment plan. Complex and multi-morbid conditions require effective collaboration between physicians from different medical specialties as well as technicians and other healthcare workers. This review focuses on the importance of collaboration between medical specialties and multidisciplinary teams in improving healthcare outcomes, enhancing patient experience, and enhancing communication between different medical parties. Through collaborative care models, coordination between specialist physicians and healthcare workers can be improved to ensure comprehensive and coordinated patient care, leading to improved patient prognosis, reduced costs, and increased patient satisfaction. Despite the significant benefits of this collaboration, there are challenges including team member selection, communication, and conflicts within teams, which may hinder the achievement of the expected benefits. Therefore, this study focuses on strategies to overcome these challenges to achieve effective collaboration between medical teams.