Team-Based Care Design

Leaders can optimize patient outcomes while ensuring the most effective, flexible, and cost-effective use of available human resources by:

• identifying required team members
• assuring provider role optimization
• identifying required complement of team members
• ensuring care processes are aligned with service delivery goals
• identifying external and/or internal comparator benchmarks

To do this, leaders must assess and analyze data points from the patient, provider and practice environment lens, also known as a Three-factor Framework, to determine the most appropriate team members to best meet the needs of patients within a specific practice environment or service.

Resources and tools to help leaders better understand this comprehensive assessment process have been catalogued using Three-factor Framework categories. Final analysis resources to determine the appropriate team-based model can be found in Putting the Pieces Together.