CPAT: Collaborative Practice Assessment Tool

Submitted by National Center... on Nov 4, 2013 - 11:05am CST

Resource Type:

Tool

CPAT was developed to assess levels of collaboration intended to assist clinical teams in identifying strengths and weaknesses in their collaborative practice thereby providing opportunities for focused educational interventions.

The Collaborative Practice Assessment Tool (CPAT) is a 57-item tool with a 7-point scale that assesses collaborative practice. The tool has 8 subscales: mission, meaningful purpose and goals, general relationships, team leadership, general role, responsibilities and autonomy, communication and information exchange, community linkages and coordination of care, decision‐making and conflict management and patient involvement.

The CPAT tool is available here.

For additional information about the CPAT tool, please vist the Queen's University CPAT website.

Reference	Schroder, C., Medves, J., Paterson, M., Byrnes, V., Chapman, C., O’Riordan, A., Pichora, D., and Kelly, C. (2011). Development and pilot testing of the collaborative practice assessment tool. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 25(3), 189-195. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Informa Healthcare database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.
Tool Description	The Collaborative Practice Assessment Tool (CPAT) is a 57-item tool with a 7-point scale that assesses collaborative practice. The tool has 8 subscales: mission, meaningful purpose and goals, general relationships, team leadership, general role, responsibilities and autonomy, communication and information exchange, community linkages and coordination of care, decision‐making and conflict management and patient involvement (Schrodeer et al., 2011).
Country	Canada
Setting	Practice teams
Professions	Health Administration, Medicine, Nursing, Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Social Work, Spiritual Care and Volunteer
Sample	111 practice teams in Canada.
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	mission, meaningful purpose, goals	Cronbach’s α : Mission, Meaningful purpose, Goals = .88
	general relationships	General relationships = .89
	team leadership	Team leadership = .80
	general role responsibilities and autonomy	General role responsibilities and autonomy; = .81
	communication and information exchange	Communication & information exchange = .84
	community linkages and coordination of care	Community linkages & coordination of care = .76
	decision‐making and conflict management	Decision-making & conflict management .67
	patient involvement	Patient involvement= .87
Contact	ao3@queensu.ca

Author(s):

Dr. Corinne Schroder

Link to Resource:

http://www.wrha.mb.ca/professionals/collaborativecare/files/S2-Queen-CPA...

Subject:

Assessment & Evaluation

Collaborative Practice

Education & Learning

Teamwork

Not assessing behaviour

Submitted by Jill Thistlethwaite on Jun 5, 2014 - 1:27pm CDT

This is not really a tool for assessing behaviour - it is a self-reported perception of team performance rather than observation of behavour in practice. We need to think of better ways of categorising these tools.

57 items

Submitted by Susan Shapiro (not verified) on Jan 26, 2014 - 1:30pm CST

It is a huge challenge to survey working professionals, esp. physicians and nurses. They will look at a 57-item tool and roll their eyes. This may be useful for research, but is it useful as an ongoing assessment of uptake?

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