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This 4-item, 3-point scale is modified from the original 7-item scale and is adapted for ease of applicability to clinical settings. It is intended for the assesment of individuals within an interprofessional team in a patient encounter, to provide performance feedback. The scale was validated in the standardized setting of a Team Objective Structured Clinical Encounter (Generalizability coefficient .73). It can be applied to any health profession. The behaviors/skills observed are Collaboration, Roles, Patient/Family-Centeredness and Conflict Management.

Scientifically developed and validated online tools for managing teams. Includes the Team-Maker, which assigns students to teams using instructor-specified criteria selected from a list of questions or written by the instructor. Also includes CATME Peer Evaluation, which collects and summarizes student self- and peer evaluations.  Provides feedback to students and data to the instructor. 

The CATME Team Tools system has been used by over 630,000 students world wide.

The ATOSCE is a simulation and assessment tool involving an interprofessional, ambulatory (outpatient) encounter.  Western University of Health Sciences developed the tool to provide geriatric-focused IPE teamwork education and practice with simulated exercises. Two cases were developed and scripted for actors portraying the standardized patients, a standardized caregiver, and standardized clinicians. 

This article provides research with standardized patients, supporting modification of the 9-point McMaster-Ottawa Scale to a 3-point scale with behavioral anchors that permits ease of use for rating individuals performing in teams and the team.  The authors use G-theory to assess the accuracy of faculty rating health professions students trained to perform at 3 different skill levels. 

The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey is a 20 item self-assessment tool. Its items cover aspects of trainee roles on a team and use of interprofessional practice team approaches to patient care. 

The ICCAS is intended to measure the self-reported competencies of interprofessional care in interprofessional education programs (Archibald, Trumpower, & MacDonald, 2014)

The Interprofessional Collaboration Scale contains 13 items to measure three constructs: communication (5 items), accommodation (5 items), and isolation (3 items). The scale's novel feature is that it was conceived and written for multiple-group, round robin, rater judgements of target groups. For example, inpatient medical/surgical wards may be staffed by nurses, physicians, and allied health care professionals. The survey can be completed by nurses (raters) to make physicians and other health professionals targets of the items.

The Safety Organizing Scale was developed by Vogus and Sutcliffe at Indiana University School of Nursing and IU school of Medicine. This is a tool that is robust , valid and reliable . We will be using the measuement tool with the NEPQR grant to cultivate IPCP enviroments both in Acute ACC and rural health clinic sites .

Validity and Reliability of the Safety Organizing Scale

This tool is designed to help assess the extent to which the group being observed is behaving as an interprofessional team.

The Team Climate Inventory (TCI) was developed to measure team function. This tool can be used to measure proximal work group climate and team members' perceptions of climatic dimensions in organizational climate surveys, team building and development, selection of new members into groups, and group development over time.

The Team Climate Inventory  is a 38-item tool using both a  5 and 7 point scale. The tool is used to measure  team function. It has 4 subscales: vision, participative safety, task orientation, and support for innovation.

The Relational Coordination Scale (RCS) measures the quality of communication and relationships in bounded and unbounded teams. A mutually reinforcing process of communication (frequent, timely, accurate, and problem-solving) and relationships (shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect) characterize the strength of coordination ties amongst interdependent team members.