BACKGROUND Most individuals with mental health concerns seek care from their primary care provider, who may lack comfort, knowledge, and time to provide care. Interprofessional collaboration between providers improves access to primary mental health services and increases primary care providers' comfort offering these services. Building and sustaining interprofessional relationships is foundati...

AIM This study explores the current state of collaboration and communication between nurses and general practitioners in nursing homes, as well as needs and expectations of nursing home residents and their families. Finally, we aim to develop a new model of collaboration and communication. BACKGROUND Rising numbers of residents in nursing homes present a challenge for general practice and nur...

Patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of diabetes present unique challenges during an inpatient hospital stay to treat an acute or chronic illness. Upon review of current hospital practice, an interprofessional team embarked on a performance improvement project to improve outcomes for the complex medical-surgical diabetic patient. The methods detailed herein--a comprehensive education ...

Continuing interprofessional education is the means by which experienced health, social care, and other practitioners learn with, from, and about each other, formally and informally, to improve their collective practice and to cultivate closer collaboration. It applies principles of interprofessional education through media commonly employed in continuing professional education grounded in team...

There is a lack of access to oral health care in the United States for rural, underserved, uninsured, and low-income populations. There are widely recognized problems with the US health care system, including rapidly increasing costs and access to oral health. During the last decade, there has been a huge influx and push toward interprofessional education programs; however, these programs conve...

OBjECTIvEs To study the effects of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Interdisciplinary Leadership Development Program (ILDP) on interprofessional attitudes, beliefs, and use of skills. ILDP is a collaboration among five campus-based U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau-funded training programs. These programs included Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related D...

Issue: Suboptimal prescribing results in the “under-use, overuse and inappropriate use of medications”1 and means patients may not be receiving the beneficial drug therapy that they need. This can lead to preventable drugrelated hospitalizations and increased costs to patients and the health care system. As medication experts, pharmacists are ideally positioned to play a positive role in multid...

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Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the countries of the Region of the Americas reaffirmed their commitment to the Strategy of Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage (Universal Health)(1). Improvements in primary care resolution capacity, and the distribution, training, and qualification of human resources for health, are important factors in...