What is it about?
Interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians is a recurrent challenge in daily clinical practice. To ameliorate the situation, quantitative or qualitative studies are conducted. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed separately in a mixed methods design. By means of triangulation a „meta-matrix“ resulted in a four-step process. Relevance, influencing factors as well as consequences of interprofessional collaboration for patients, relatives and systems become visible.
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Why is it important?
For the first time, the interprofessional collaboration from the nursing perspective at five Swiss hospitals is shown in a „meta-matrix“. The consequences of insufficient collaboration between nurses and physicians are considerable. This is why it’s necessary to invest in interprofessional concepts. In the „meta-matrix“ the factors which influence the interprofessional collaboration positively or negatively are visible.
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I hope this article invites professionals to develope and implement effective concepts based on the data of the "meta-matrix" of interprofessional collaboration. Not only nurses and physicians will benefit but also other team members and patients with their relatives.
Marianne Schärli
Universitätsspital Zürich
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This page is a summary of: Interprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit Pflegefachpersonen und Ärzteschaft, Pflege, February 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1024/1012-5302/a000531.
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