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This is an Education to Practice Tool Kit item, that focuses on identifying key strategies to foster high-performing teams, and stregthen cohesiveness in an interprofessional health care team. Subject areas include: balancing task and process, managing team dynamics, and factors that affect cohesion.

This item is one of many in a series that can be accessed by registering for the Education to Practice Tool Kit at http://education2practice.org/toolkit.

Development of the Student Perceptions of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education (SPICE) instrument was guided by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative’s competency framework. The SPICE instrument contains 10 items and 3 factors dedicated to interprofessional teamwork and team-based practice (items 1, 5, 6, & 8-10), roles/responsibilities for collaborative practice (items 2 & 7), and patient outcomes from collaborative practice (items 3 & 4).

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 Measure of Processes of Care (pronounced "em-pock") is a well-validated and reliable self-report measure of parents' perceptions of the extent to which the health services they and their child(ren) receive are family-centred. The original version of MPOC is a 56-item questionnaire; as of 1999 there is a shorter, 20-item version. MPOC has been used internationally in many evaluations of family-centred service.

An Always Events® is a clear, action-oriented, and pervasive practice or set of behaviors that provides the following:

PROMIS® stands for Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, which is a system of highly reliable, precise measures of patient–reported health status for physical, mental, and social well–being. PROMIS® tools measure what patients are able to do and how they feel by asking questions. PROMIS measures can be used as primary or secondary endpoints in clinical studies of the effectiveness of treatment, and PROMIS® tools can be used across a wide variety of chronic diseases and conditions and in the general population.

IP-COMPASS is a quality improvement framework to help clinical settings become better prepared to provide intentional interprofessional learning experiences (i.e., learning experiences that help students develop skills for interprofessional collaboration). It provides a structured process to help you understand the types of organizational values, structures, processes, practices and behaviours that, when aligned, can create an environment that is conducive to interprofessional learning.

This version of the IPEC Competency Self-Assessment Tool is a 42-item self-assessment questionnaire with items based on the competencies defined by the Interprofessional Education Collaboartive expert panel. It is designed for health professional students to rate their ability level on each competency using a 5-point Likert scale.

The Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS) is a 37 item inventory with 4 subscales:  partnership, cooperation, coordination, and shared decision making.  Authors concluded it was a valid and reliable instrument. They  found it to load on 3 factors explaining 61.02% of the variance.  Internal consistency reliability for each subscale ranged from 0.80 to 0.97, with an overall reliability of 0.98.

Satisfaction survey, endorsed by NQF, to evaluate family satisfaction of hospice care.  Developed by National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in collaboration with Dr. Joan Teno, Brown University.