Interprofessional collaboration is a key factor in initiatives designed to increase the
effectiveness of health services currently offered to the public. It is important that the concept of …

Successful collaboration in health care teams can be attributed to numerous elements,
including processes at work in interpersonal relationships within the team (the interactional …

PURPOSE In 2004, we undertook a consultation with Canadian primary health care experts
to define the attributes that should be evaluated in predominant and proposed models of …

Background: No primary practice care model has been shown to be superior in achieving
high-quality primary care. We aimed to identify the organizational characteristics of primary …

PURPOSE On the eve of major primary health care reforms, we conducted a multilevel
survey of primary health care clinics to identify attributes of clinic organization and physician …

With increasingly fewer family physicians in many countries and students less interested in
primary care careers, generalists are becoming an endangered species. This situation is a …

INTRODUCTION The information provided by pharmaceutical sales representatives has
been shown to influence prescribing. To enable safe prescribing, medicines information must …

The ageing of the population and the increasing need for long-term care services are global
issues. Some countries have adapted homecare programs by introducing an intervention …

Role clarity is a crucial issue for effective interprofessional collaboration. Poorly defined roles
can become a source of conflict in clinical teams and reduce the effectiveness of care and …

Shared decision making is now making inroads in health care professionals' continuing
education curriculum, but there is no consensus on what core competencies are required by …