The intervention uses a collaborative care team model of health care delivery and is structured and primarily phone-based to enhance reproducibility and scalability.
To optimize the continuity and coordination of care, intensive partnership working is needed within a Collaborative Care team (CCT).
Backing up the collaborative care team are two study scientists: EP, the study GP and psychotherapist, is preparing the interventions as well as continuously supporting and supervising the APNs.
These findings have implications for quality improvement efforts by collaborative care teams such as in transitional care where professionals from various occupational backgrounds have to work together to improve quality of care delivery.
The types of teams most frequently referred to were: intermediate care, rapid response, collaborative care teams, re-enablement/community rehabilitation teams and those designed to address a specific need such as: falls prevention teams, stroke rehabilitation, early diagnosis and intervention teams for mental health problems, and end of life care.
Thus, all health care professionals within a collaborative maternity care team are each responsible only for the care they provide―not the care provided by others.
Although community-based network and collaborative palliative care team objectives have been delineated in the literature, there remains little explicit direction on how to operationalize these goals or how such initiatives should be evaluated [ 6, 20, 21].
It is strongly believed that the future of optimising a patient's therapy as well as reducing patient's drug risks can only be provided by a collaborative health care team consisting of different professions.
Rehabilitation professionals, particularly occupational therapists (OTs) who have expertise in evaluating and enhancing motor-based functional activity, may be key members of such a collaborative health care team for physicians and children with DCD.
Health care providers working in primary care settings promoting collaborative practice, as in Family Health Teams (i.e. interprofessional collaborative health care teams delivering coordinated quality care by various health care providers [ 11]), are well positioned to deliver such multidisciplinary care [ 12].
Collaborative care involves a team based approach, where team members include the primary care physician (GP), a case manager (often a practice nurse) and a mental health specialist (e.g. psychiatrist, psychologist).
