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The SF-36 is a multi-purpose, short-form health survey with only 36 questions. It yields an 8-scale profile of functional health and well-being scores as well as psychometrically-based physical and mental health summary measures and a preference-based health utility index. It is a generic measure, as opposed to one that targets a specific age, disease, or treatment group.

HEDIS is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America's health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. Because so many plans collect HEDIS data, and because the measures are so specifically defined, HEDIS makes it possible to compare the performance of health plans. Health plans also use HEDIS results themselves to see where they need to focus their improvement efforts.

In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a staff survey designed to help hospitals assess the culture of safety in their institutions.

The Aston Team Performance Inventory (ATPI) is the most comprehensive measure of team performance available. Developed from over ten years of research into team effectiveness by Professor Michael West and his team at Aston University, the ATPI identifies and measures the key elements of effective team working at both team and organisational levels.

The Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR) is intended for use in the assessment of interprofessional collaborator competencies. Development of the ICAR was guided by an interprofessional advisory committee comprising educators from the fields of medicine, nursing and the rehabilitative sciences.

This is an Education to Practice Tool Kit item that focuses on key attributes of health care team leaders. The focus of this piece is identifying leadership as a competency among team members, rather than as a role to be assigned to a specific health care team member. Subject areas include: shared leadership, roles and responsibilities of team leaders, and strategies of effective leadership.

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.