Interprofessional Collaboration and Interprofessional Education Interventions in Clinical Healthcare Settings: A Realist Review.

ABSTRACT: Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and interprofessional education (IPE) are two concepts that have gained interest during the last decade, for the positive change they enable, especially in clinical healthcare settings. Despite this surge of attention, there are few studies that systematically analyse interventions aiming at fostering IPC/IPE within clinical teams. Developing additional knowledge around factors that impact the efficiency of similarly targeted interventions can help improve the quality of patient care in clinical settings. To this end, the paper offers a systematic, realist review of the IPC/IPE interventions outlined in the literature, seeking to better understand how the context and mechanisms which shape these interventions interact to produce the desired outcomes (i

SUBMITTER: Balague-Viladrich G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12932884 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature