Ten years on
This editorial celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Interprofessional Care.
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Seizing the moment: An opportune time to study the outcomes of interprofessional education and health care delivery
Interprofessional efforts have never been "mainstream." Although other disciplines have valued interprofessional activities, there has been little interest in interprofessional efforts by organized medicine; too often, interprofessional efforts have depended on individual, personal commitment and experience.
Many factors in health care delivery have converged to generate a renewed, more mainstream interest in interprofessional practice models.
A new collaboration
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Worldwide News: John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. geriatric team training initiative
On April 10-12, 1997, the John A. Hartford Foundation sponsored a kick-off meeting for the implementation phase of its new US initiative in geriatric interdisciplinary team training (GITT).
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National Academies of Practice annual conference report- Interprofessional approaches to the prevention of health care errors
This report summarizes the National Academies of Practice annual meeting, convened in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, on April 13, 2002 in Washington, D.C.
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National Academies of Practice meets at the National Institutes of Health
This report describes the National Academies of Practice membership Forum Day, held on April 28, 2000 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Integrating interprofessional education into continuing education: A planning process for continuing interprofessional education programs
Informal continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) can be traced back decades in the United States; however, interest in formal CIPE is recent. Interprofessional education (IPE) now is recognized as an important component of new approaches to continuing education (CE) that are needed to increase health professionals' ability to improve outcomes of care. Although there are examples of CIPE programs that are being successfully implemented, a clearly articulated, step-by-step planning process to help guide educators in providing effective CIPE programs is lacking.
The University of Virginia interprofessional education initiative: An approach to integrating competencies into medical and nursing education
Growing evidence supports the position that interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative care are essential elements of healthcare education and practice (Institute of Medicine, 2003; World Health Organization, 2010).
Navigating tensions: Integrating palliative care consultation services into an academic medical center setting
CONTEXT: Despite rapid proliferation of hospital-based palliative care consultation services (PCCSs) across the country, there is little description of the dynamic processes that the PCCS and the non-PCCS hospital cultures experience during the institutionalization of a successful PCCS.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the institutionalization of a new PCCS in a quaternary care academic medical center (AMC) and highlight two themes, cost and quality, that pervaded the dynamics involved from the inception to the successful integration of the service.