American Interprofessional Health Collaborative: Historical roots and organizational beginnings
This article describes the emergence of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative to rebuild capacity for interprofessional education and care in the U.S. through an inclusive, evidence-based and open exchange of information and resources. Also described are the historical context and the national and international climate for its emergence.
Keeping patients safe: Transforming the work environment of nurses
Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses identifies solutions to problems in hospital, nursing home, and other health care organization work environments that threaten patient safety through their effect on nursing care.
A companion to the Institute of Medicine's earlier patient safety report, To Err is Human, the report puts forth a blueprint of actions that all health care organizations which rely on nurses should take.
Collaboration improves the quality of care: Methodological challenges and evidence from US health care research
At the present time when interprofessional collaboration in practice is reaching new levels of interest related to health care system changes in both the UK and the US, a key question being raised is: What are the outcomes and costs of interprofessional collaborative models of care?
End-of-life decisions in adult intensive care: Current research base and directions for the future
The current research knowledge base for end-of-life decision making in adult intensive care units is reviewed. Proposals for future research needs and for practice are described.
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Development of an Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale
The authors describe the development and psychometric testing across three study phases of an Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale. The measure contains two subscales: Quality of Care/Process (14 items) and Physician Centrality (6 items). The Quality of Care/Process subscale measures team members' perceptions of the quality of care delivered by health care teams and the quality of teamwork to accomplish this. The Physician Centrality subscale measures team members' attitudes toward physicians' authority in teams and their control over information about patients.
USA: Focus on interprofessional practice, education, and research
This article provides an overview of major interprofessional health care, education and research initiatives in the USA in the past fifty years, beginning with a short introduction that places the discussion into a conceptual and historical perspective and ending with some considerations for the future of interprofessional care in the USA.
Collegiality in interdisciplinary health teams: Its measurement and its effects
Interaction during four to seven meetings of four interdisciplinary health care teams was videotaped and coded for amount of interaction initiated and received by doctor, nurses, and nutritionists in each team. Process categories such as “asks opinion,” “gives information,” and “gives order,” were also coded for each participant in each meeting. A model of collegial interaction was developed, and the teams were compared with the model.
The interprofessional healthcare team:Leadership and Development
The Interprofessional Health Care Team: Leadership and Development
explores theoretical concepts of leadership in an interdisciplinary health
care environment and provides practical examples of these concepts
from the perspective of health care scholars, scientists, faculty, and
health administration professionals. This valuable resource will help
healthcare students and professionals to be prepared for future
collaboration with those of other related disciplines in order to develop
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference- Conference Synthesis
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 19-21, 1984 at the University of Connecticut. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
Students improve patient care and prepare for professional practice: an interprofessional community-based study
Anderson ES, Thorpe, LN. (2014). Students improve patient care and prepare for professional practice: an interprofessional community-based study. Medical Teacher. 36(6): 495–504.
Background: We report on an education model, which enables students to contribute to practice while experiencing the realities of complex team-working in the community.
Aims: The study considers how interprofessional learning impacts on patient care and service delivery.
