"Poor interprofessional collaboration (IPC) can negatively affect the delivery of health services and patient care. Interventions that address IPC problems have the potential to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes."
Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice‐based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
Healthcare teams are increasingly collaborating to reduce the burden on individual members. With higher need for healthcare in our aging population, medical doctors are often pressed for time when seeing patients, and patients can wait weeks to get an appointment. Interprofessional collaboration is when multiple health care providers work together to treat patients.
For example, medical doctors are often working alongside nurses and nurse practitioners. But, our interprofessional networks can span into our communities as well, and include dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, occupational therapists, psychologists, counsellors, naturopaths, physiotherapists, speech language pathologists and.... you guessed, it: CHIROPRACTORS. Chiropractors can help patients get their musculoskeletal concerns addressed more quickly, and are able to refer out when something is outside of scope. These concerns place a large burden on the healthcare system, and chiropractors are a part of the solution. The attached article provides preliminary evidence that IPC may:
(a) Help improve patient outcomes
(b) Reduce patient required treatment time
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