The dedicated research reviews being undertaken by the collaborating centre, to inform the group's discussions, are probably a first for the homecare sector.
The relevance of professional knowledge is an influence on collaborative role boundaries because health professionals tend to collaborate more frequently with the professions that can provide them with additional knowledge and information to inform their care decisions and vice versa.
Once you catch on to who really pulls the strings and where the real power base is, who you have to collaborate with, who you have to inform, who you have to seek for advice and agreement, you can actually make these big, very, very lumbering organizations work very, very well.
Various public participation models and tools offer opportunities to inform, consult, involve, collaborate with, and empower affected/interested parties [ International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) 2000; Renn et al. 1995].
Most of us use our cell phones and computers to inform, make requests of, and collaborate with co-workers, clients and customers.
Think about the language we use to collaborate and contrast it with the words we use to inform.
McRae has collaborated with scientists and synthetic biologists, using their knowledge to inform her experimental works that speculate on the future.
Indeed, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and Capacity Plus have recently collaborated to develop a guide for conducting a DCE to inform HRH policy [ 11].
So there is a further need for science and public services to collaborate more in building realistically complex but accessible models 35 to inform policy making.
