Terminology

Interprofessional Education

When students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.

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Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care.

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Interprofessional Teamwork

The levels of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration characterizing the relationships between professions in delivering patient-centered care.

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Interprofessional Team-Based Care

Care delivered by intentionally created, usually relatively small work groups in health care who are recognized by others as well as by themselves as having a collective identity and shared responsibility for a patient or group of patients (e.g., rapid response team, palliative care team, primary care team, and operating room team).

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