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The APTR Healthy People Curriculum Task Force developed the Curriculum Guide for Health Professions Faculty to prepare students to participate effectively as members of interprofessional health care teams delivering clinical prevention and population health services. 

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

Paper survey for assessing patient satisfaction with the interprofessional outpatient experience. Patients are asked to complete 14 questions, 13 quantitative and 1 qualitative. 11 items are scored via a 5-point Likert scale. 2 items are Yes/No. Surveys were anonymous, and offered at the end of a clinical encounter. 

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

The Interprofessional Education Assessment and Planning Instrument for Academic Institutions was designed to do the following: 1) assist institutions in gauging where they are in development of Interprofessional Prevention Education and 2) assist institutions wishing to further advance Interprofessional Education with an emphasis on prevention.

This tool will allow institutions to asses where they are in the development of IPE on their campuses.

The TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire (T-TPQ) was developed to assess health professionals' perceptions of interprofessional teamwork within an organization and group-level team skills and behavior.

T-TAQ is used to measure how individuals approach team related issues. The TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ) was developed to assess the impact of interprofessional education on health professionals' attitudes, knowledge, and team skills.

Performance Assessment for Communication and Teamwork Tool Set was developed to assess performance on team work and communication in simulated scenarios.

The Performance Assessment for Communication and Teamwork Tool Set (PACT) was developed to assess teamwork and communication performance in simulated environments.

The Health Care Quality Information from the Consumer Perspective (HCAHPS, pronounced "H-caps"), also known as the CAHPS Hospital Survey, is a survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients' perceptions of their hospital experience.

CAHPS surveys focus on aspects of care that meet two criteria:

The Survey of Organizational Attributes of Primary Care (SOAPC) was developed to assess health care professionals' perceptions of the organizational resources for change required in primary care settings and measures organizational attributes of practice teams as providers of quality of care.

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.