P 4 Residents’ Baseline Attitudes Towards A Team Approach to Patient Care

1. P4Residents’ Baseline Attitudes Towards A Team Approach to Patient Care E. Dawn Creach, MS, Daisuke Yamashita, MD, Rebecca E. Rdesinski, MPH, MSW, Patricia A. Carney, PhD, M. Patrice Eiff, MD, and John W. Saultz, MD Oregon Health & Science University Department of Family Medicine , Background: Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4 ) is a 5-year national demonstration project to inspire and evaluate innovations in residency training to ensure that family physicians are equipped to provide superior Patient-Centered Care in the changing healthcare system. Differences Among Groups at Baseline RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Instrument: 6-item Likert sub-scale measuring attitudes towards a team approach to patient care Objective: Explore residents’ baseline attitudes towards a team approach to patient care. Research question: Does exposure to a team approach to patient care in residency influence resident attitudes? + Kruskal-Wallis Test (nonparametric) ++ Mann-Whitney Test (nonparametric) Team Approach Attitude Scale Results • Next Steps: • - Historical cohort analyses to measure change in attitudes over time • Correlate resident exposure to team-based care and attitudes • - Graduate survey data will assess practice characteristics, including implementation of team-based care * Residents excluded from scale if missing or answered Don’t Know or Neutral/No opinion on any scale items. P4 = Preparing the Personal Physician for PracticeFor more information visit www.transformed.com/p4.cfm