BACKGROUND Scholars have recently started to pay more attention in the potential of the inter-professional relationship between general practitioners and specialists to improve outcomes, through consideration given to the effect on prescribing practices. However, more empirical research is needed. OBJECTIVE To explore inter-professional network factors that may explain effects on General Prac...

Although inter-organisational collaboration is common, most information security (IS) research has focused on IS issues within organisations. Confidentiality, integrity of data and availability (CIA) and responsibility, integrity of role, trust, and ethicality (RITE) are two sets of principles for managing IS that have been developed from an intra-organisational, rather static, perspective. The...

Aims: To document knowledge and perceptions relating to the professional role in the area of alcohol misuse within a sample of first year (n = 278) and final year (n = 527) medical, nursing and allied health professional (NAHP) students in Scotland. Methods: A cross sectional survey design involving self-completed questionnaires administered in autumn 2008 (first year students) and spring 2009 ...

Commercial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic have challenged creative industries to transform service delivery from inter-personal online operations. Existing music and audio production collaboration platforms cloud storage cannot replicate intrinsic in-studio interactions between an engineer clients in a professional post-production mixing environment. We developed DAW Collaboration Framew...

AIMS To document knowledge and perceptions relating to the professional role in the area of alcohol misuse within a sample of first year (n = 278) and final year (n = 527) medical, nursing and allied health professional (NAHP) students in Scotland. METHODS A cross sectional survey design involving self-completed questionnaires administered in autumn 2008 (first year students) and spring 2009 ...

Purpose To get an overview of health care workers perceptions of patient safety climates and the quality of collaboration in Slovenian out-of-hours health care (OOHC) between professional groups. Materials and methods This was a cross-sectional study carried out in all (60) Slovenian OOHC clinics; 37 (61.7%) agreed to participate with 438 employees. The questionnaire consisted of the Slovenia...

Purpose: Capacity problems and political pressures have led to a rapid change in the organization of primary care from mono disciplinary small business to complex inter-organizational relationships. It is assumed that inter-organizational collaboration is the driving force to achieve integrated (primary) care. Despite the importance of collaboration and integration of services in primary care, ...