As reported in the journal JMIR Human Factors, Chao Yan, You Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor in DBMI, and colleagues used electronic health records (EHRs) and network analysis to study teamwork in intensive care units at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
As a starting point, they matched 38 patients admitted to the COVID ICU with 38 similar patients without COVID-19 admitted to the medical ICU.
Team members serving COVID-19 inpatients were more densely connected, interacting far more than their medical ICU counterparts. In COVID-19 teams, internal medicine physicians and nurse practitioners were more apt to figure as core members.