Index to Chiropractic Literature
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URL http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0161-4754/PIIS0161475409002693.pdf
Journal J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2009 Nov-dec;32(9):715-722
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Abstract/Notes Objectives: Despite the growing interest in integrative health care, collaborative care, and interdisciplinary health care teams, there appears to be little consistency in terminology and clarity regarding the goal for these teams, other than “working together” for the good of the patients. The purpose of this study was to explore what the terms integration and collaboration mean for practitioners and other key informants working in multiprofessional health care teams, with a specific look at chiropractic and family physician teams in primary care settings.

Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 16 key informants until saturation was obtained in the key emerging themes. All interviews were audiorecorded, and the transcripts were coded using qualitative content analysis.

Results: Most participants differentiated collaboration from integration. They generally described a model of professions working closely together (ie, collaborating) in the delivery of care but not subsumed into a single organizational framework (ie, integration). Our results suggest that integration requires collaboration as a precondition but collaboration does not require integration.

Conclusions: Collaboration and integration should not be used interchangeably. A critical starting point for any new interdisciplinary team is to articulate the goals of the model of care.

This abstract is reproduced with the permission of the publisher; click on the above link for free full text. PMID 20004798
      

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