Working on working together. A systematic review on how healthcare professionals contribute to interprofessional collaboration

Professionals in healthcare are increasingly encouraged to work together. This has acted as a catalyst for research on interprofessional collaboration. Authors suggest developing interprofessional collaboration is not just the job of managers and policy makers; it also requires active contributions of professionals. Empirical understanding of whether professionals make such contributions and if so, how and why, remains fragmented. This systematic review of 64 studies from the past 20 years shows there is considerable evidence for professionals actively contributing to interprofessional collaboration. Although the evidence is limited, we can show they do so in three distinct ways: by bridging professional,…

• MU
  Macquarie University
• UO
  University of Sydney
• EU
  Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• NO
  Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
• NR
  National Research Foundation of Korea
• E
  Erasmus+