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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

The Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Team Huddles in Healthcare Hospital-Based Setting

Shih Ping Lin1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;2 Division of Infection, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;3 Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Ching-Wein Chang4 Department of Nursing, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Chun-Yi Wu1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;5 Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, TaiwanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9616-0874
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Chun-Shih Chin1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;6 Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, TaiwanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4321-9948
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Cheng-Hsien Lin1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;7 Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Sz-Iuan Shiu1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;8 Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Yun-Wen Chen1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;9 Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, TaiwanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6243-5355
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Tsai-Hung Yen1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;9 Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Hui-Chi Chen4 Department of Nursing, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Yi-Hung Lai4 Department of Nursing, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Shu-Chin Hou4 Department of Nursing, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Ming-Ju Wu3 Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan;5 Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, TaiwanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8585-4392
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Hsin-Hua Chen1 Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;3 Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan;9 Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;10 Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Centre for Translational Medicine, Big Data Center, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan;11 School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, TaiwanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 2241-2247 | Received 02 Aug 2022, Accepted 23 Sep 2022, Published online: 06 Oct 2022

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