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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Using interprofessional learning in practice to improve multidisciplinary working
This article describes how a system of interprofessional learning was established and developed. It gives practical tips on implementation and some short case studies demonstrating how students have benefited from this approach.
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Mar 14, 2014
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Student-led interprofessional education revolution: developing the "Diamond Approach"
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19842956
Mar 14, 2014
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Performance-based competencies for culturally responsive interprofessional collaborative practice
This paper will highlight how a literature review and stakeholder-expert feedback guided the creation of an interprofessional facilitator-collaborator competency tool, which was then used to design an interprofessional facilitator development program...
Mar 14, 2014
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Interprofessional, practice-driven research: reflections of one "community of inquiry" based in acute stroke
Research is often scholarship driven and the findings are then channelled into the practice community on the assumption that it is utilising an evidence-based approach in its service delivery. Because of persisting difficulties in bridging the...
Mar 14, 2014
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Promoting partnership working for undergraduate students
Interprofessional working is an important NHS policy aim (Department of Health 2000; Barrett et al 2005), which has meant that interprofessional education (IPE) is an increasingly important topic for higher education institutions (Caldwell and Atwal,...
Mar 14, 2014
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Evaluation framework for a multi-site practice-based interprofessional education intervention
The interprofessional literature suggests that there is a lack of evidence of the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) on patient outcomes and critiques the methodology used to determine the evidence. This paper describes and critiques a...
Mar 14, 2014
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Evaluation of an online course on the care of teenagers and young adults with cancer
Teenagers and young adults with cancer face significant challenges throughout their cancer journey. Psychosocial issues are considered to be among the most challenging faced by patients, families and healthcare professionals. Staff from Coventry...
Mar 14, 2014
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Interprofessional education in health sciences: the University of Queensland Health Care Team Challenge
Successful transition of students to competent work-ready health professionals requires an ability to work in health care teams. Poor communication and teamwork practice has been implicated as a contributing source of error affecting patient safety....
Mar 14, 2014
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The Presidential Scholars Program at the Medical University of South Carolina: an extracurricular approach to interprofessional education
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) developed a Presidential Scholars Program (PSP) in order to foster interprofessional collaboration among students from the different health professions on campus. Now in its seventh year, the program...
Mar 14, 2014
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Inter-branch initiative to improve children's mental health
Pre-registration nursing programmes have been criticized for not adequately preparing nurses to work with children and young people with mental health issues. This article highlights the importance of developing strategies across traditional branch...
Mar 14, 2014
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