About the Literature Compendium
National Center conducted an extensive scoping review of the interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education (ICP/IPE) literatures from 2008 through 2013. The initial search yielded 1176 published manuscripts that were reduced to 496 when the inclusion criteria were used to refine the selection of published manuscripts. This fully searchable compendium includes full citations and access through PubMed to those manuscripts, organized by article content, country of study, healthcare system, methods, number of professions involved, sample size and study setting.
What’s in the Literature Compendium?
- 254 papers on assessment or evaluation of an interprofessional education intervention
- 133 papers on interprofessional collaborative practice research
- 32 papers describing the development of programs
- 42 papers assessing instruments together with programs
- 6 papers describing instruments 14 papers assessing or evaluating instruments
- 12 papers presenting models or competencies
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A critical examination of the role of appreciative inquiry within an interprofessional education initiative
Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a relatively new approach to initiating or managing organizational change that is associated with the 'positiveness' movement in psychology and its offshoot positive organizational scholarship. Rather than dwelling upon...
Mar 14, 2014
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Relationships of power: implications for interprofessional education
Interprofessional education (IPE) is considered a key mechanism in enhancing communication and practice among health care providers, optimizing participation in clinical decision making and improving the delivery of care. An important, though under-...
Mar 14, 2014
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Learning to listen: improving students' communication with disabled people
A significant number of patients requiring critical care are now being managed outside of critical care facilities. There is evidence that staff looking after these patients lack the necessary knowledge and skills to care for them safely, and that...
Mar 14, 2014
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Learning from lives together: medical and social work students' experiences of learning from people with disabilities in the community
The study aims to evaluate an interprofessional community-based learning event, focussing on disability. The learning opportunity was based on the Leicester Model of Interprofessional Education, organised around the experiences and perceptions of...
Mar 14, 2014
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"Riding the bumpy seas": or the impact of the Knowledge Skills Framework component of the Agenda for Change initiative on staff in intermediate care settings.
Mar 14, 2014
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Communication channels in general internal medicine: a description of baseline patterns for improved interprofessional collaboration
General internal medicine (GIM) is a communicatively complex specialty because of its diverse patient population and the number and diversity of health care providers working on a medicine ward. Effective interprofessional communication in such...
Mar 14, 2014
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Interprofessional intensive care unit team interactions and medical crises: a qualitative study
Research has suggested that interprofessional collaboration could improve patient outcomes in the intensive care unit (ICU). Maintaining optimal interprofessional interactions in a setting where unpredictable medical crises occur periodically is...
Mar 14, 2014
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A two-week stay in an Interprofessional Training Unit changes students' attitudes to health professionals
Attitudes amongst health professionals can impact on the effectiveness of teamworking and patient care. Interprofessional education (IPE) is thought to contribute to the development of positive attitudes. An Interprofessional Training Unit (ITU) was...
Mar 14, 2014
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Using online learning and interactive simulation to teach spiritual and cultural aspects of palliative care to interprofessional students.
Mar 14, 2014
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