This study explored the perceptions of staff in an interprofessional team based on a medical
rehabilitation ward for older people, following the introduction of a service improvement …

Background The Institute of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) called for
healthcare professionals to engage in interprofessional collaboration and practice to solve …

The rapid growth in the proportion of adults over the age of 65 translates into greater need of
complex, highly specialized care. Hence, coupled with other factors, healthcare …

Introduction: Care for the frail elderly is often provided by several professionals.
Collaboration between them is essential, but remains difficult to achieve. Interprofessional …

Teamwork is an aspiration in the delivery of interprofessional care to older adults, but how
does it play out in residential settings that combine independent living, assisted living, and …

The 1975 passage of Public Law 94‐142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act)
mandated that public school districts develop interprofessional teams as the core of the …

Medical housestaff are rarely members of interdisciplinary teams. In this study, housestaff
participated in interdisciplinary team rounds during a month-long rotation on an Acute Care …

Realizing maximum independence for older persons requires understanding and
collaboration among health professionals. Unfortunately, health professionals are often …

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how team members experience and
enact interprofessional teamwork in primary health care (PHC). Fifty-three participants (from …

To provide effective, comprehensive care to increasingly complex patients in Canadian
communities, healthcare providers are shifting from solo providers of primary care to …