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This collection of three research papers represents the fruits of the AHRQ-funded Collaborative Care Research Network Research Development Conference in Denver in October 2009. At the meeting, participants took steps toward establishing a research agenda for collaborative care among primary care and mental health clinicians.

The three papers are:

This report lays out a comprehensive strategy by which government, health care providers, industry, and consumers can reduce preventable medical errors. Concluding that the know-how already exists to prevent many of these mistakes, the report sets as a minimum goal a 50 percent reduction in errors over the next five years.

In its recommendations for reaching this goal, the committee strikes a balance between regulatory and market-based initiatives, and between the roles of professionals and organizations.

The national consultation undertaken in this project – Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice, Australia (L-TIPP, Aus) – revealed many examples of innovative and successful interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives developed across the Australian higher education sector.

This report outlines recommendations from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation conference "Patients, Families, and Communities: An Urgent Imperative for Health Care." The conference took place April 3 - 6, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia.

Final report from the Economics Research Council funded seminar series on the development of theory in IPE.  Precursor to development of the In-2 Theory community of practice.

In England and Wales there are an unacceptably large number of people in prison or in contact with the criminal justice system who have mental health issues.  Integrated and effective interagency collaboration is required between the criminal justice system and mental health services to ensure early diagnosis, treatment, appropriate sentencing or diversion of these individuals from the criminal justice systems into mental health services.   Diversion and liaison schemes are proposed as a means to integrated service provision through positioning mental health professionals within the crimina

Maximizing Your ROI: Collaboration and Quality in Distance Learning

Faculty Shortages Across the Health Professions: Implications for Teaching and Workforce

In recent years, health professions educators and administrators have increasingly witnessed and have thus begun attempting to address faculty shortages across the spectrum of health professions, perhaps most acutely in allied health, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy. The development of new curricula and the aspiration to expand community-based education have exacerbated concerns about adequate, qualified faculty.

The following report shares a series of recommendations from national experts on care coordination from across the health professions convened over a two-year period as part of the NYAM Initiative on Interprofessional Care Coordination, a project Macy has funded since 2011.The recommendations address the issues of how to operationalize effective interprofessional care coordination practice models in new and future health care delivery systems, and how to incorporate interprofessional educational and team training for care coordination into pre-clinical and clinical training.

Transforming Patient Care: Aligning Interprofessional Education with Clinical Practice Redesign outlines a series of recommendations to align healthcare education and practice, providing immediate action steps to link interprofessional education and collaborative care.

The recommendations stem from a January 2013 Macy Conference where leaders in health professions education and healthcare delivery came together to discuss how they might align their efforts.