TY - JOUR
T1 - Team adaptive capacity and adaptation in dynamic environments
T2 - A scoping review of the literature
AU - Sanford, Natalie
AU - Lounsbury, Olivia
AU - Reedy, Gabriel
AU - Rafferty, Dame Anne Marie
AU - Anderson, Janet E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s)
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - Healthcare systems rely on the expertise, ingenuity, and resilience of healthcare teams to maintain safe and high-quality care in complex, variable, and resource-constrained environments. Research has suggested that successful team adaptation prevents patient harm, optimises efficiency, and keeps healthcare systems running. Team adaptation is a central concept in both teamworking and organisational resilience theory, but team adaptation and its associated concepts, specifically team adaptive capacity, remain underspecified, ill-defined, and poorly understood in healthcare. Other high-risk industries, such as aviation, military, and nuclear power, may have a more extensive evidence base that can inform conceptualisations in healthcare and beyond. This scoping review synthesizes the cross-disciplinary literature on team adaptation, proposes a new definition for team adaptive capacity, and develops a model for understanding team adaptation, its outcomes, and antecedents: the team adaptive cycle.
AB - Healthcare systems rely on the expertise, ingenuity, and resilience of healthcare teams to maintain safe and high-quality care in complex, variable, and resource-constrained environments. Research has suggested that successful team adaptation prevents patient harm, optimises efficiency, and keeps healthcare systems running. Team adaptation is a central concept in both teamworking and organisational resilience theory, but team adaptation and its associated concepts, specifically team adaptive capacity, remain underspecified, ill-defined, and poorly understood in healthcare. Other high-risk industries, such as aviation, military, and nuclear power, may have a more extensive evidence base that can inform conceptualisations in healthcare and beyond. This scoping review synthesizes the cross-disciplinary literature on team adaptation, proposes a new definition for team adaptive capacity, and develops a model for understanding team adaptation, its outcomes, and antecedents: the team adaptive cycle.
KW - Adaptive teamwork
KW - Healthcare teamwork
KW - Resilient healthcare
KW - Team adaptation
KW - Team adaptive capacity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208536675&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.hfh.2024.100089
DO - 10.1016/j.hfh.2024.100089
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85208536675
SN - 2772-5014
VL - 6
JO - Human Factors in Healthcare
JF - Human Factors in Healthcare
M1 - 100089
ER -