Barriers to Effective Communication
Some barriers to effective communication and teamwork at the team level
include:
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Lack of a clearly stated, shared, and measurable purpose
Lack of training in interdisciplinary collaboration
Role and leadership ambiguity
Team too large or too small
Team not composed of appropriate professionals
Lack of appropriate mechanisms for timely exchange of information
Values are a major source of conflicting and competing communication patterns among health professionals, who are educated and trained in very different
modes and methods of practice in regard to their relationships to each other and
to the patient and family.
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