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In this issue brief, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundaton discusses ways to encourage more interprofessional collaboration in health care.

Takeaways: 

• Collaboration between doctors, nurses and other health care providers—known as interprofessional collaboration — is not the norm in health care today.
• Interprofessional collaboration holds promise for reducing medical errors, improving the quality of care and meeting the needs of diverse populations.
• We can increase interprofessional collaboration by educating doctors, nurses and other health professionals together, and by retraining providers to work together.