Multidisciplinary Healthcare: Towards an Integrated Model for Improving the Quality of Healthcare Services and Improving Patient Outcomes
Keywords:
Multidisciplinary healthcare; integration; quality improvement; patient outcomes; interprofessional collaboration; care delivery models; healthcare management; technology-enabled data sharing (Isobel Keeling et al., 2018) (Vincent et al., 2011)..Abstract
Multidisciplinary healthcare is defined as the collaborative provision of care by professionals from a variety of backgrounds. By integrating care across multiple disciplines, the quality of healthcare services is enhanced, patient outcomes and satisfaction are improved, and operational costs and staff turnover can be reduced. Policymakers, managers, and practitioners are thus encouraged to design models that promote collaboration among diverse disciplines and settings, whilst monitoring the impact on both service quality and patient outcomes.
High-quality healthcare encompasses effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, patient-centredness, equity, integration, and safety. No single discipline, speciality, organisation, or sector can achieve these attributes in isolation. Problems occurring within one discipline
