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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Educating the dental team: exploring perceptions of roles and identities
Interprofessional education (IPE) should help to promote a team-based approach to professional practice but there are barriers to its implementation including professional identity. The aim of this study was to use a qualitative research methodology...
Mar 14, 2014
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Working together. An interdisciplinary approach to dying patients in a palliative care unit.
Multiprofessional teams have become in recent years one of the distinguishing features of services, where professionals with different competences work together. The core of our interest is addressed to the équipe of a palliative care ward; in...
Mar 14, 2014
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Interprofessional jargon: how is it exclusionary? Cultural determinants of language use in health care practice
Language can impact significantly on the ways in which health care professionals relate and provide clinical services, as well as the way in which patients conceptualize their role in the healthcare encounter. The aim of this project was to explore...
Mar 14, 2014
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Rethinking resident supervision to improve safety: from hierarchical to interprofessional models
BACKGROUND: Inadequate supervision is a significant contributing factor to medical errors involving trainees, but supervision in high-risk settings such as the intensive care unit (ICU) is not well studied.
OBJECTIVE: We explored how residents...
Mar 14, 2014
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An evaluation of the use of smartphones to communicate between clinicians: a mixed-methods study.
Mar 14, 2014
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Neophyte facilitator experiences of interprofessional education: implications for faculty development
The facilitation of learners from different professional groups requires a range of interprofessional knowledge and skills (e.g. an understanding of possible sources of tension between professions) in addition to those that are more generic, such as...
Mar 14, 2014
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General practitioner-pharmacist interactions in professional pharmacy services
Australian community pharmacies offer a range of professional pharmacy services (PPS) which include Home Medicines Review (HMR) and the Diabetes Medication Assistance Service (DMAS). The extent of interaction and collaboration between general...
Mar 14, 2014
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Peeling the layers: a grounded theory of interprofessional co-learning with residents of a homeless shelter
Clients, patients, families, and communities must be conceived as partners in care delivery, not just as recipients (D'Amour, D. & Oandasan, I. (2005). Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19(Suppl.), 8-20). Health-care students need an opportunity...
Mar 14, 2014
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Ingroup identity as an obstacle to effective multiprofessional and interprofessional teamwork: findings from an ethnographic study of healthcare assistants in dementia care
Rising dementia incidence is likely to increase pressures on healthcare services, making effective well coordinated care imperative. Yet, barriers to this care approach exist which, we argue, might be understood by focussing on identity dynamics at...
Mar 14, 2014
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The BRIDGE Community Consultation Project: building rural interprofessional discussions and group experiences
INTRODUCTION: Interprofessional (IP) community-oriented health education is an important strategy for achieving high quality health care. The purpose of this project was to develop collaborative partnerships between rural communities and Thompson...
Mar 14, 2014
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