ITPS: Interdisciplinary Team Performance Scale

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Tool

The Interdisciplinary Team Process Scale (ITPS) was developed to assess interdisciplinary team performance in long-term care settings and to measure performance in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

This is a 59-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to assess interdisciplinary team performance in health care settings. The tool has 6 subscales: leadership, communication, coordination, conflict management, team cohesion, and perceived unit effectiveness.

The ITPS instrument is available as Appendix 1 in: Temkin‐Greener, H., Gross, D., Kunitz, S. J., and Mukamel, D. (2004). Measuring interdisciplinary team performance in a long‐term care setting. Medical Care, 42(5), 472‐481. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Wolters Kluwer Health database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.

Reference	Brajtman, S., Hall, P., Weaver, L., Higuchi, K., Allard, A., and Mullins, D. (2008). An interprofessional educational intervention on delirium for health care teams: Providing opportunities to enhance collaboration. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 22(6), 658‐660. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Informa Healthcare database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.
Tool Description	Same as Temkin-Greener et al. (2004).
Country	Canada
Setting	Non-acute hospital
Professions	Medicine (3), Nursing (3), Dietetics (1), Pharmacy (1), Pastoral Counseling (1) and Volunteer (1)
Sample	10 members of IP palliative care team
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	leadership	Reliability and face content and construct validity as reported by Temkin-‐Greener et al 2004.
	communication	Reliability and face content and construct validity as reported by Temkin-‐Greener et al 2004.
	coordination	Reliability and face content and construct validity as reported by Temkin-‐Greener et al 2004.
	conflict management	Reliability and face content and construct validity as reported by Temkin-‐Greener et al 2004.
	team cohesion	Reliability and face content and construct validity as reported by Temkin-‐Greener et al 2004.
	perceived unit effectiveness	Reliability and face content and construct validity as reported by Temkin-‐Greener et al 2004.
Contact	brajtman@uottawa.ca

Reference	Forchuk, C., and Vingilis, E., (2008). Creating interprofessional collaborative teams for comprehensive mental health services – Final report. London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, Health Canada IECPCP Initiative.
Tool Description	This is a 49-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to assess interdisciplinary team performance in health care settings. The tool has 4 subscales: leadership, communication, organization, and conflict management (Forchuk and Vingilis, 2008).
Country	Canada
Setting	University and practice settings
Professions	Undergraduate students, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Social Work and Psychology
Sample	363 students
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	leadership	none reported
	organization	none reported
	communication	none reported
	conflict management	none reported
Contact	cforchuk@uwo.ca

Reference	Temkin‐Greener, H., Gross, D., Kunitz, S. J., and Mukamel, D. (2004). Measuring interdisciplinary team performance in a long‐term care setting. Medical Care, 42(5), 472‐481. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Wolters Kluwer Health database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.
Tool Description	This is a 59-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to assess interdisciplinary team performance in health care settings. The tool has 6 subscales: leadership, communication, coordination, conflict management, team cohesion, and perceived unit effectiveness (Temkin-Greener et al., 2004).
Country	United States
Setting	Long term care
Professions	Medicine, Nursing, Dietetics, Therapy, Paraprofessionals
Sample	1220 team members from 12 disciplines
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	leadership	see below
	communication	see below
	coordination	see below
	conflict management	see below
	team cohesion	see below
	perceived unit effectiveness	see below
	For all subscales: Paraprofessionals : Cronbach’s α =.73 - .87, Professionals :Cronbach’s α =.78 - .91, Team effectiveness α =.89, Coordination and conflict management α=.76 Face & Content validity: reviewed by an expert panel. Construct validity: Correlations: Leadership, communication, coordination, and conflict management subscales are positive and significant (p<0.001) predictors of team cohesion and team effectiveness.
Contact	Helena_Greener@urmc.rochester.edu