Academic-practitioner collaborations may be the best approach to assuage some of the challenges associated with research on vulnerable populations.
Given the potential benefit of academic-practitioner collaborations as well as potential difficulties involved in joint work between individuals with different perspectives and priorities (Bartunek and Louis 1996; Nyden, and Wiewel 1992), it is important to note what makes collaborations successful.
Sharing insights on factors that had jeopardised the collaborative processes became a catalyst for change, and, coupled with the determination of individual researchers and engineers, enabled the collaboration to move forward to complete the intervention and identify mechanisms to facilitate knowledge exchange in future transport and health, researcher-practitioner collaborations.
The Justice Steps (JSTEPS) project uses a PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) quasi-experimental design that combines active and engaged researcher and practitioner learning collaborations about EBP adoption and implementation.
Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics (NPLCs) in Ontario are clinics where nurse practitioners, in collaboration with physicians and other health professionals, autonomously manage primary care for a broad clientele.
The model also emphasises accommodating diversity amongst primary health care practitioners, enabling collaboration and reducing barriers to participation, as well as facilitating and promoting mentoring and networking.
To prevent and treat metabolic disorders in patients with severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, new guidelines for clinicians in Sweden were drawn up in 2009, thus after the end of this study, by psychiatrists, diabetologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists and general practitioners in collaboration.
Moreover, despite the fact that the Southern practitioners had initiated collaboration with the Northern researchers, the North South collaboration was still somewhat perceived as threatening in the less-developed less-well-resourced setting, but was openly welcomed in the better-resourced WHO-affiliated centre, NIOH.
Many TCM practitioners believed that collaboration with the western medicine profession was necessary.
Although general practitioners think that collaboration is important for physical activity promotion, it should not cost them much extra time.
