Change efforts such as total quality management and continuous quality improvement reveal the importance of teamwork and collaboration to organizational success. In health care, teamwork has consistently been shown to improve the quality of health care and reduce medical errors[1,2]. In addition, Hoegl and Gemuenden[2] demonstrated that the quality of the teamwork is significantly associated with team performance on innovative projects, which indicates that teamwork is crucial to organizational growth and development. Both of these studies showed that communication is of the utmost importance for determining teamwork and collaboration. This paper uses path analysis to construct a causal path model which helps identify intra-organizational factors influencing the variation in perceived teamwork and collaboration within a large medical center.
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