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Effective Interprofessional Education: Argument, Assumption and Evidence (Promoting Partnership for Health)

ISBN: 978-0-470-77719-0

May 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

208 pages

Description
This volume presents a systematic review of interprofessional education in health and social care. This is accompanied by a wider-ranging critique of interprofessional education, grounded by experience, and informed by sources beyond the evaluations that qualified for inclusion in the review. Synthesising the evidence base for interprofessional education nevertheless remains central, with 353 studies surveyed in the first instance, from which 107 studies form the basis for the final analysis.


The book does much more than amass evidence. It revisits conventional wisdom; setting an agenda to help interested parties perform better by applying lessons learned, remedying weaknesses and renewing efforts to address unanswered questions. The first three chapters set the scene for the systematic review and its findings. The middle section of the book articulates the findings of the review. Finally, the closing chapters consider values and attitudes, theoretical perspectives and offer conclusions.


Arguments, assumptions and evidence in this publication are presented to inform policy making, programme planning, teaching and research.

About the Author
Hugh Barr and Ivan Koppel, both University of Westminster, School of Integrated Health, London, UK

Scott Reeves, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Marilyn Hammick, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

Della Freeth, City University, London, UK


Features

  • Provides a glossary to demystify terminology and offer clear definitions
  • Reflects exchanges between international networks, along with associated developments
  • Identifies optimum conditions for harnessing the benefits of interprofessional collaboration
  • Appendices include search strategies, abstraction of studies and high quality studies