- he demands of caring for dying patients and their families cannot be met by one person alone.
- Care requires the skills of several health professionals and often needs the skills of chaplaincy, social work, nursing and medicine to alleviate pain and suffering and provide emotional and psychological support.
- Some teams caring for dying patients and their families are more community-based in nature in that they may seldom have opportunities to work face to face. Therefore, collaboration and efforts to improve teamwork can be especially challenging.
- Careful consideration of how all teams form and function, and strategies to overcome the ubiquitous difficulties in collaborative work will lead to improved treatment effectiveness and improve quality of end-of-life care.