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IPAS is a scale designed to assess attitudes that relate to the 2011 Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. IPAS is one of the first scales to focus specifically on the Core Competencies. IPAS consists of 27 items in 5 sub-scales, which we have called "Teamwork, Roles, and Responsibilities", "Patient-Centeredness", "Interprofessional Biases", "Diversity & Ethics", and "Community-Centeredness". IPAS was created from factor analysis of survey data collected from over 700 student respondents at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in 2012.

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.

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.

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.

The ELIQ was developed to provide a student self-assessment of communication, team work skills, and attitudes toward collaborative learning and collaborative working both before and after qualification.

The Entry Level Interprofessional Questionnaire is  a 27-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to assess  students' attitudes towards  interprofessional education and collaboration. The tool has 3 subscales: communication and teamwork, interprofessional learning, and interprofessional interaction.

The Team Decision Making Questionnaire (TDMQ) was developed to assess the quality of interprofessional teams and to evaluate clinical staff's perceptions of decisions making.

The Team Decision Making Questionnaire is  a 19-item tool with a 7-point scale that is used to assess the quality of  interprofessional teams. The tool has 4 subscales: decision‐making, team support, learning, and developing quality services. 

The Perception of Interprofessional Collaboration Model Questionnaire (PINCOM-Q) was developed to measure perceptions and behavior between professionals in the interprofessional collaboration process on an individual, group, and organizational level.

The Medication Use Processes Matrix (MUMP) was designed to measure how primary health care professionals' perceive their own and others’ contributions to medication-related processes.

This is a 22-item tool with a 5-point scale used to provide a description of medication-related processes in primary care. The tool has 5 subscales: diagnostic and prescribing, monitoring, administrative and documentation and medication review. 

The Interprofessional Socialization and Valuing Scale (ISVS) was developed to evaluate the beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes that underlie interprofessional socialization and collaborative practice in health care settings.

This is a 24-item tool with a 7-point scale used to assess the extent of shift towards collaborative care in health care settings. The tool has 3 subscales: ability to work with others, value in working with others, and comfort in working with others.