To close the gap between the Valley and Washington, an effective method of collaboration needs to be leveraged in a joint venture that aims to make policies and adhering to them a seamless and pain-free experience.
Notwithstanding the theoretical predictions, whether or not communities of practice are effective forms of collaboration remains an open question.
It is obvious that the success of a metabolomics study depends on an efficient and effective collaboration of this interdisciplinary research community.
Responses to the open box question 'what else do you think hindered your project?' revealed a link between resources and other aspects of effective collaboration: 59% of comments related to 'resources', particularly 'time' needed to develop projects and relationships.
GPs tend to see themselves as specialists in long-term conditions, although there is absence of evidence of effective collaboration between primary and secondary care, and comprehensive management for patients with such conditions [ 66].
These have yielded some success but are hampered by the problems posed by the use of heterogeneous software tools and the lack of effective collaboration tools that are necessary to collapse the time and distance constraints, within which increasingly global design teams work.
Many studies examining collaborative practice in primary care settings have been undertaken, yet identification of essential elements of effective interprofessional collaboration in primary care settings remains obscure.
One of the key lessons has been the importance of effective collaboration and communication between vaccine producers, international organisations and countries that are working together to supply vaccines and strengthen the systems to deliver them.
In the backdrop of the recently concluded BRICS* health ministers' meeting in New Delhi, Chandra Kishore (CK) Mishra, India's Secretary for Health & Family Welfare and Dr Flavia Bustreo reflect on the benefits of effective collaboration to improve health and development and the new ways of working needed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era**.
Although numerous studies have documented the benefit of effective team collaboration, especially between nurses and physicians, a collaborative model between physicians and nurses continues to be the exception [ 5, 10].
