Scott Reeves & Simon Lewin 
Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care 

PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH

This book forms part of a series entitled Promoting
Partnership for Health publishedin association with the UK
Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE).
The series explores partnership for health from policy, practice
and educational perspectives. Whilst strongly advocating the
imperative driving collaboration in healthcare, it adopts a
pragmatic approach. Far from accepting established ideas and
approaches, the series alerts readers to the pitfalls and ways to
avoid them.

DESCRIPTION

Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care is
an invaluable guide for clinicians, academics, managers and
policymakers who need to understand, implement and evaluate
interprofessional teamwork. It will give them a fuller
understanding of how teams function, of the issues relating to the
evaluation of teamwork, and of approaches to creating and
implementing interventions (e.g. team training, quality improvement
initiatives) within health and social care settings. It will also
raise awareness of the wide range of theories that can inform
interprofessional teamwork.

The book is divided into nine chapters. The first ‘sets the
scene’ by outlining some common issues which underpin
interprofessional teamwork, while the second discusses current
teamwork developments around the globe. Chapter 3 explores a range
of team concepts, and Chapter 4 offers a new framework for
understanding interprofessional teamwork. The next three chapters
discuss how a range of range of social science theories,
interventions and evaluation approaches can be employed to advance
this field. Chapter 8 presents a synthesis of research into teams
the authors have undertaken in Canada, South Africa and the UK,
while the final chapter draws together key threads and offers ideas
for future of teamwork. The book also provides a range of resources
for designing, implementing and evaluating interprofessional
teamwork activities.

Зміст

List of Boxes, Figures and Tables.

The Authors.

Series Foreword.

Acknowledgements.

Glossary.

Introduction.

1. Interprofessional teamwork – the basics.

2. Current developments affecting interprofessional
teamwork.

3. Interprofessional teamwork: key concepts and issues.

4. A conceptual framework for interprofessional teamwork.

5. Using theory to better understand interprofessional
teamwork.

6. Interprofessional teamwork interventions.

7. Evaluating interprofessional teamwork.

8. Synthesising studies of interprofessional teamwork.

9. Ways forward.

References.

Appendices.

Index.

Про автора

Scott Reeves, Ph D, MSc is Director of Research at the Centre
for Faculty Development and a Scientist at the Li Ka Shing
Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. He is also a Scientist
in the Wilson Centre and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Medicine, University of Toronto. He is a social scientist who has
been undertaking health professions education and health services
research for nearly fifteen years. His main research interests are
exploring and evaluating the processes and outcomes related to
interprofessional education and practice by use of ethnographic,
mixed methods and systematic review. He was recently appointed as
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Interprofessional Care.

Merrick Zwarenstein, MB, BCh, MSc is a physician and a
health services researcher.

He is the Inaugural Chair of the Centre for Health Services
Sciences at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto. He is also
a Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and at the
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and an Associate
Professor in the Department of Health Policy Management and
Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

Sherry Espin, RN, Ph D, MEd is a Registered Nurse and an
Associate Professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing,
Ryerson University, Toronto. She previously held several positions
in perioperative clinical practice and education. She currently
teaches in the post diploma and graduate programs at Ryerson
University, with an emphasis on qualitative research,
interprofessional education and collaboration, current issues and
nursing practice courses.

Simon Lewin, MBCh B, Ph D, MSc trained as a physician and
now works as a social scientist and health service researcher. He
holds research positions in the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the
Health Services and in the Health Systems Research Unit of Medical
Research Council of South Africa, where his work is focused largely
on mixed method implementation research in low- and middle-income
countries. He is also an editor for the Cochrane Consumers and
Communication Review Group and the Cochrane Effective Practice and
Organisation of Care Review Group.