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Interprofessional collaboration and health policy: results from a Quebec mixed method legal research
- Source :
- Journal of interprofessional care. 36(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is central to effective care. This practice is structured by an array of laws, regulations and policies but the literature on their impact on IPC is scarce. This study aims to illustrate the gap between the texts and clinicians' knowledge of the legal framework using an anonymous web-based survey. The survey, sent to nurses and physicians in Quebec, Canada, focused on the IPC legal framework, legal knowledge sources and IPC perceptions or beliefs. The primary outcome was to determine the gap between the law and understanding of the law. The secondary outcome was to identify legal knowledge sources for clinicians in Quebec. A total of 267 participants filled in the survey. For knowledge acquisition, 40% of physicians turned to insurers whereas 43% of nurses turned to their regulatory body. Only 30% of physicians correctly identified what activity is reserved for physicians while 39% of nurses correctly identified their reserved activity. Regarding legal perceptions, 28% of physicians and 39% of nurses thought IPC could increase their liability. These participants have a higher tendency to name liability-related issues as barriers to IPC. These results show an important discrepancy between clinicians' knowledge about law and policies, and the actual texts themselves. This gap can lead to misinterpretations of the law by clinicians, ineffective policy changes by policymakers and can perpetuate ineffective implementation of IPC.
- Subjects :
- Hardware_MEMORYSTRUCTURES
030504 nursing
Health Policy
Interprofessional Relations
Quebec
ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING
General Medicine
Public administration
Policy analysis
Legal research
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Political science
Physicians
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Cooperative Behavior
0305 other medical science
Health policy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699567
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of interprofessional care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d9b4d399553d3f76fda462f7f70ea290