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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'The unknown becomes the known': collective learning and change in primary care teams.
CONTEXT: The growing emphasis on teamwork within the National Health Service (NHS) has made it a priority to understand how health care teams learn together and cope with change.
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore how collective learning...
Mar 14, 2014
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"An educated workforce which works collaboratively". Deriving best-evidence operating principles for interprofessional learning in Tayside: a qualitative study.
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20602594
Mar 14, 2014
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"Knowing more about the other professions clarified my own profession".
The purpose of this study was to compare which learning outcomes relating to an Interprofessional Training Unit (ITU) experience were found to be most important by students and by alumni. A cohort of 428 students in the ITU was asked to write three...
Mar 14, 2014
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"Oh why didn't I take more notice?" Professionals' views and perceptions of pre-qualifying preparation for interprofessional working in practice
It is widely assumed that interprofessional learning (IPL) impacts positively on interprofessional working (IPW) in health and social care. However, there is no clear evidence that pre-qualifying IPL improves service delivery. The direct effect of pre...
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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"What is found there": qualitative analysis of physician-nurse collaboration stories
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Effective physician-nurse collaboration is an important, but incompletely understood determinant of patient and nurse satisfaction, and patient safety. Its impact on physicians has not been described. This study was undertaken to...
Mar 14, 2014
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A 'RIPPER' Project: advancing rural inter-professional health education at the University of Tasmania
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To develop and evaluate a classroom-based curriculum designed to promote interprofessional competencies by having undergraduate students from various health professions work together on system-based problems using quality...
Mar 14, 2014
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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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A cross-institutional examination of readiness for interprofessional learning
This paper examines the readiness for and attitudes toward interprofessional (IP) education in students across four diverse educational institutions with different educational mandates. The four educational institutions (research-intensive university...
Mar 14, 2014
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A cross-sectional survey examining the extent to which interprofessional education is used to teach nursing, pharmacy and medical students in Australian and New Zealand universities
The current status of interprofessional education (IPE) in Australian and New Zealand universities is largely unexamined despite its generally acknowledged benefit. Data are also limited about the use of IPE in teaching medication safety to nursing,...
Mar 14, 2014
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