Measuring partnership synergy and functioning: Multi-stakeholder collaboration in primary health care.

ABSTRACT: In primary health care, multi-stakeholder partnerships between clinicians, policy makers, academic representatives and other stakeholders to improve service delivery are becoming more common. Literature on processes and approaches that enhance partnership effectiveness is growing. However, evidence on the performance of the measures of partnership functioning and the achievement of desired outcomes is still limited, due to the field's definitional ambiguity and the challenges inherent in measuring complex and evolving collaborative processes. Reliable measures are needed for external or self-assessment of partnership functioning, as intermediate steps in the achievement of desired outcomes. We adapted the Partnership Self-Assessment Tool (PSAT) and distributed it to multiple stakeholders w

SUBMITTER: Loban E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8162647 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature