Clinical Microsystems and Team Coaching

Offers an overview of clinical microsystems, mesosystems, and team coaching improvement approaches, with case studies demonstrating their use in practice.

Steve Harrison (Author), Rachael Finn (Author), Marjorie M. Godfrey (Author)

9781009326377, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 May 2025

34 pages
23 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.66 kg

Microsystems are the building blocks of the healthcare system. They are the small functional frontline units that provide most healthcare to most people, be it a clinic or a ward. The microsystem improvement approach engages teams at the frontline of care with patients and families in a structured process to improve the quality of care and outcomes. This Element offers an overview of the theory of the microsystems, mesosystems, and team coaching improvement approaches, using case studies to demonstrate how the approaches have been used in practice. A critique of the emerging evidence base and the strengths and limitations of the approach is given. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction
2. Microsystems and Mesosystems
3. Tools and Techniques
4. Critiques of the Microsystems Approach
5. Key Strengths and Limitations of the Microsystems Approach
6. Conclusions
7. Further Reading
Contributors
References.

Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]