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Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Optimizing patients/clients, organizational, and system outcomes

Type of Guideline: 
Healthy Work Environments
Publication date: 
2013
Status: 
Published
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About this Guideline:

For the purpose of this document, Interprofessional is defined as: Multiple health disciplines with diverse knowledge and skills who share an integrated set of goals and who utilize interdependent collaboration that involves communication, sharing of knowledge and coordination of services to provide services to patients/clients and their care-giving systems. This best practice guideline, Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Optimizing patients/clients, organizational, and system outcomes is intended to foster healthy work environments. The focus in developing this guideline was identifying attributes of interprofessional care that will optimize quality outcomes for patients/clients, providers, teams, the organization and the system. This guideline identifies best practices to enable, enhance and sustain teamwork and interprofessional collaboration, and to enhance positive outcomes for patients/clients, systems and organizations. It is based on the best available evidence; where evidence was limited, the recommendations were based on the consensus of expert opinion.

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Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Tips and Tools for Health-care Teams
Toolkit: Implementation of Best Practice Guidelines, Second Edition
Translations for this Guideline: 
Développement et maintien des soins de santé interprofessionnels: optimisation des résultats pour le patient, l’organisme et le système
Panel Members: 

Advisory Committee: Doris Grinspun, RN, MSN, PhD, LLD, O.ONT. Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario Joshua Tepper, MD Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Craig Jones, MD Vermont Blueprint for Health Development Panel Co-chairs: Rani Srivastava, RN, PhD Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Stewart Kennedy, MD, CCFP, MHA Ontario Medical Association Development Panel Members: Bonny Jung , PhD, BSc(OT) McMaster University Charmaine McPherson, RN, PhD St. Francis Xavier University Danielle Lubbers University of Windsor Eric Li, MA, BSc. Pharm. Ontario Pharmacists’ Association Gary Sibbald, MD, FRCPC, ABIM, DABD, Med University of Toronto Laurie Goodman, RN, BA, MHScN Toronto Regional Wound Healing Clinic Hazel Sebastian, MA, MSW, RSW St. Michael's Hospital Judy Smith RN, BScN, MEd(DE), ENC Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital Kathleen Klaasen, RN, MN, GNC Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre Patti McGillicuddy, MSW, RSW University Health Network Rozanna Haynes, RN Ontario Nurses' Association Salma Debs-Ivall, RN, MScN The Ottawa Hospital Scott Graney, MSW, RSW St. Joseph's Health Centre Sheri Oliver, RPN Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario