An interprofessional collaborative practice approach to transform heart failure care: An overview |
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| Authors: | Brenda K Zierler Erin Abu-Rish Blakeney Kevin D O’Brien IPCP Heart Failure Teams |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Nursing, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;2. Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;3. Inpatient Cardiology Service, CCU Medical Director University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA;4. University of Washington Medical Center and the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research, and Practice |
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| Abstract: | Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) approaches to health care are increasingly recognized as necessary to achieve the Triple Aim—improved health of the population, improved patient care experience, and improved affordability of care. This paper introduces and provides an overview of an interprofessional intervention to improve a healthcare team, healthcare system, and patient outcomes for hospitalized patients with heart failure. In this paper, we describe the overall project resulting from a workforce training grant and the proposed series of future papers resulting from the interprofessional intervention. Collectively, these papers will describe the results of a unique IPCP approach on team, system, and patient outcomes as well as describe and compare organizational and leadership traits that affect collaborative practice. Our hope is that the intervention approaches, evaluation results, and lessons learned described in these papers will help further the efforts to spread IPCP approaches to transforming health care. |
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| Keywords: | Heart failure interprofessional collaboration partnership practice transformation team-based care teamwork |
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