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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Objective The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of health behaviors (self-
management and coping), quality of care, and individual characteristics (depressive …

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 …

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 …