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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What attracts students to interprofessional education and other health care reform initiatives?.
BACKGROUND: An international consensus has emerged that interprofessional education (IPE) and other health care reforms are necessary to address the increasing complexity of patients' health needs. Despite overwhelming barriers to its system-wide...
Mar 14, 2014
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Interprofessional education for students of the health professions: the "Seamless Care" model
"Seamless Care" was one of 21 grants awarded by Health Canada to inform policymakers of the effectiveness of interprofessional education in promoting collaborative patient-centred practice among health professionals. The "Seamless Care" model of...
Mar 14, 2014
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What influences referrals within community palliative care services? A qualitative case study
Evidence suggests that the utilisation of community palliative care services varies considerably according to different patient characteristics. Most literature describes this variability, but does not address why such differences exist. Exploring the...
Mar 14, 2014
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Developing disaster preparedness competence: an experiential learning exercise for multiprofessional education
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The hurricane disasters of 2005 and the threat of pandemic infectious diseases compel medical educators to develop emergency preparedness training for medical students and other health care professional students.
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Mar 14, 2014
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Enhancing learning through an interprofessional project competition
This article describes the process of using an interprofessional team project to address one of the most commonly occurring challenges in health care delivery--medication reconciliation. We describe the planning and execution of the process and the...
Mar 14, 2014
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Interprofessional clinical education: clinicians' views on the importance of leadership
The current shortage of health professionals necessitates new approaches to clinical education that can expand the number of undergraduate students undertaking clinical placements without increasing the burden on clinical staff or placing patients at...
Mar 14, 2014
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Improving services for back pain: putting the patient at the centre of interprofessional education
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Studies exploring the role of patients in interprofessional education (IPE) are found primarily in undergraduate programmes with few reporting on the postgraduate (continuing professional development) setting. This paper...
Mar 14, 2014
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A virtual learning community for interprofessional education
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22250645
Mar 14, 2014
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Collaboration: what is it like?- phenomenological interpretation of the experience of collaborating within rehabilitation teams
Although a core component of many current health-care directions, interprofessional collaboration continues to challenge educators and health professionals. This paper aims to inform the development of collaborative practice by illuminating the...
Mar 14, 2014
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Targeted crisis resource management training improves performance among randomized nursing and medical students
INTRODUCTION: In this study designed with adequate statistical power to detect relevant training effects, investigators evaluated Crisis Resource Management (CRM) training during a simulated patient crisis. This study is guided by the Team...
Mar 14, 2014
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