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All across the U.S., practices are trying to transform themselves to improve the quality of their care, become patient-centered medical homes, and qualify for new payment opportunities. The Primary Care Team Guide, developed by staff at the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, offers practical advice, close to 300 resources and models to help leaders and staff engaged in or considering practice transformation build more effective care teams and deploy them to optimize patient care.

In November 2014, Bodenheimer and Sinsky published an article, “From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider,” in which they make the case that care teams are unable to achieve Triple Aim goals of improving population health while improving patient experience and reducing costs because providers and team members are overwhelmed and stressed.

Innovations in Oral Health, February 2015 Newsletter

Innovations in Oral Health, March 2015 Newsletter

Innovations in Oral Health, April 2015 Newsletter

Learner attitudes toward collaboration with other professions are critical in the development and implementation of interprofessional educational activities. Attitude assessment provides baseline information, determines needs and can be used to evaluate impact of learning.

This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources which can help organizations assess attitudes.

Conflict in teams can impact care quality, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and morale through decreased and/or dysfunctional communication. Although conflict is a natural part of life and work it is often unmanaged or mismanaged and can result in compromised care. 

This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources that can help organizations address and manage conflict in interprofessional teams. 

This National Center-commissioned monograph provides basic information about good practices and processes in measurement instrument selection, development and use.
 

Viewed as a “primer” on interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) evaluation and assessment, it does not make recommendations on specific tools or tell individuals what to measure. Instead the primer guides readers on what to look for when selecting a tool, the importance of defining purpose and how to assess a tool’s evidence of validity.
 

Health and health care now occupy a well-deserved place of prominence in the national conversation. Prompted in part by the debate over health reform, we are now starting to examine and question virtually everything we know, or thought we knew, about our health care system—and our own roles and responsibilities as users of that system.

What we’re seeing is a marked shift away from blithe acquiescence to the status quo, and toward creating a "culture of health."

But what does that mean?

The Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kits are based on the IPEC Competencies, the NONPF Core Competencies and the HRSA interprofessional oral health core competencies delineated in the Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice report (2014).