A MULTIMODAL APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE IN HEALTH SETTINGS

Health care professionals, under growing pressure to improve the effectiveness of their efforts, are giving increasing attention to interprofessional processes. While many aspects of collaboration have been studied, insufficient attention has been directed to the problem of how the characteristics of the organizational environment in which the collaboration takes place shape its form and process. The authors believe that the environment of the hospital indicates need for a multimodal approach to collaborative practice, and provides clues to its implementation.