The coming of age for interprofessional education and practice
Interprofessional education for collaborative practice is an important innovation globally and in US health professions education. The recent spotlight on interprofessional education in the United States was launched by a series of reports in the US Institute of Medicine's Quality Chasm series. They raised concerns over medical errors and health care quality as significant sources of morbidity and mortality in the United States and proposed health professions' education for patient-centered, team-based care as one means to address these concerns.
Editorial- All Together Better Health
Interprofessional activists enjoy ever more opportunities to exchange experience between countries thanks to electronic communications, study visits, conferences and, of course, this Journal. An international organisation to promote such exchange has, however, until now been conspicuously lacking.
Preparing students for interprofessional teamwork in health care
In response to community demand, The Office of the Coordinator of Health Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Canada developed a two-day Interprofessional Team Building workshop and piloted it twice. The workshops included faculty and students with clinical experience from nine different health and human service programmes. The design of the workshop was drawn from team-building theory and exercises used in business education. It was augmented by clinical examples and case-based discussions.
Improving Primary Health Care Through Collaboration: Briefing 1- Current Knowledge About Interprofessional Teams in Canada
This briefing is the first in a series of four that aims to provide an analysis of the impact of inter-professional teams on the Canadian primary health care system.
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Improving Primary Health Care Through Collaboration: Briefing 2- Barriers to Successful Interprofessional Teams
This briefing is the second in a series of four that aims to provide an analysis of the impact of inter-professional teams on the Canadian primary health care system.
Countries with robust primary care systems have residents in better health at lower costs. One way to achieve a more robust primary health care system is to optimize the use of inter-professional primary care (IPC) teams. IPC teams can improve health outcomes for patients with chronic and complex conditions.
Improving Primary Health Care Through Collaboration: Briefing 3- Measuring the Missed Opportunity
This briefing is the third in a series of four that aims to provide an analysis of the impact of interprofessional teams on the Canadian primary health care system.
Recommendations for Action: Getting the Most out of Interprofessional Primary Health Care Teams
Over the past decade, there has been increased uptake of the interdisciplinary team model for delivering primary care services. However, so much more could be done.
TDM: Team Development Measure
The Team Development Measure (TDM) is a measure of the level of development of a team constructed by Bill Mahoney, PhD, and Carolyn Turkovich.
AITCS: Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration 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.
Jefferson InterProfessional Observation Guide
This tool is designed to help assess the extent to which the group being observed is behaving as an interprofessional team.
