A four-year, systems-wide intervention promoting interprofessional collaboration

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Braithwaite, Jeffrey ^a   Westbrook, Mary ^a   Nugus, Peter ^a   Greenfield, David ^a   Travaglia, Joanne ^a   Runciman, William ^b   Foxwell, A Ruth ^c   Boyce, Rosalie A ^d   Devinney, Timothy ^e   Westbrook, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Attitudinal improvement; Change; Collaboration; Interprofessionalism; Intervention; Longitudinal research; Socio ecological theory; Survey; Systems research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MASS COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; STAFF DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84859894433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-99     Document Type: Article

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