Interprofessional collaboration occurs when health professionals from different disciplines work together to identify needs, solve problems, make joint decisions on how best to proceed, and evaluate outcomes collectively. Interprofessional collaboration supports patient-centred care and takes place through teamwork. Team interactions, wider organizational issues, and environmental structures, s...

Following the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, this research aims to examine the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness, which is defined as joint efforts to improve quality of service provision, cost savings, and coordination. We tested the bonding and bridging effects on collaboration effectiveness during the MERS...

Joint remembering relies on the successful interweaving of multiple cognitive, linguistic, bodily, social and material resources, anchored in specific cultural ecosystems. Such systems for joint remembering in social interactions are composed of processes unfolding over multiple but complementary timescales which we distinguish for analytic purposes with the terms ‘coordination’, ‘collaboration...

The collaboration process in a joint project with a Japanese company is introduced. Topics included are the role of software models at each phase of the joint project and the skill set model of the collaboration. We have developed a software project scheduling tool suited to the Japanese work environment. Through the joint project, models play a key role as an effective communication media betw...

Many companies are considering implementing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to enhance supply chain management through better coordination and collaboration. However, until recently, the incompatibility of RFID systems hindered RFID adoption and impeded coordination and collaboration among adopters. Hence, companies demanded RFID standards. In light of joint RFID standard-makin...

Definition: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care Key Message Safe, effective, satisfying patient care requires teamwork, collaboration with and communication among members of the team, including the patient and family as active partners. Objectives 1. Define team...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to identify the priorities for joint pain research from a large general population survey and identify characteristics associated with these priorities. METHODS A question about research priorities was developed in collaboration with the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre's Research Users' Group. The question was embedded in a postal survey to an existing cohort of a...

Methods for service specification should be simple and intuitive. At the same time they should be precise and allow early validation and detection of inconsistencies. UML 2.0 collaborations enable a systematic and structured way to provide overview of distributed services, and decompose cross-cutting service behaviour into features and interfaces by means of collaboration-uses. To fully take ad...