Under such a deliberately cross-specialty collaboration strategy, time spent learning to work together is treated not as nonbillable overhead but as an investment in remaining competitive.
Engaging stakeholders from all relevant parties has proved challenging and an early focus on inter-specialty collaboration is our key recommendation to centres who intend to implement similar initiatives.
It serves both clinical disciplines and their patients: GP/FM that currently aims to refine its targets and strategy [4] and Radiology where a multi-specialty collaboration has been seen as key to the future of the discipline [4].
CONCLUSIONS: In 2005, there remains a low but real need for emergent CABG after PCI, in which operative outcomes are less than ideal, especially in the postinfarction patient, representing an area for cross-specialty collaboration.
Cross-specialty collaboration in breast cancer research that incorporates psychological theory should be a priority.
A striking characteristic of this new phase is the extent to which the whole inflammatory eye disease community is working together with increasing international and cross-specialty collaboration.
Joint management is where specialists meet together to discuss how the patient should be managed from the point of view of their own specialty but in collaboration with each other.
For a music director, lame-duck status may carry more than diminishing power, as the orchestra, coming to realize that choice specialties of the collaboration are being revisited for perhaps the last time, plays with renewed ardor.
The money goes toward programs — music, dance and theater collaborations, specialty teachers, professional development — not covered by the Department of Education's budget and often absent at poorer schools that can't finance these initiatives privately.
Finally, we identified all meta-analyses of individual participant data published by major consortia operating in the specialty (Emerging Risk Factor Collaboration, Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration, Ankle Brachial Index Collaboration).
The primary care physicians work in close collaboration with specialty services".
