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Interprofessional collaborations in integrative medicine.

Sandra Grace¹, Joy Higgs

¹The Education for Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta 2151, New South Wales, Australia. sgrace@csu.edu.au

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.)

|November 2, 2010

Summary

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Integrative medicine (IM) in Australia shows varied collaboration styles between general medical practitioners (GPs) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners. Empowering partnerships best utilize the CAM workforce and enhance patient safety.

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Area of Science:

Healthcare Delivery
Integrative Medicine
Interprofessional Collaboration

Background:

Limited understanding of integrative medicine (IM) implementation in Australian healthcare.
Need to explore interprofessional collaborations within IM settings.
Focus on relationships between general medical practitioners (GPs) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners in co-located practices.

Purpose of the Study:

Examine relationships between GPs and CAM practitioners.
Investigate the roles of GPs and CAM practitioners in co-located integrative practices.
Understand the dynamics of interprofessional collaboration in Australian IM.

Main Methods:

Hermeneutic phenomenology methodology.
Data collection through cumulative case studies, focus groups, and key informant interviews.
Constant comparative analysis of multi-source data for pattern identification.

Main Results:

Identified three distinct IM practice styles: mutually empowering, GP-directed, and limited collaboration.
Mutually empowering style involved peer recognition between GPs and CAM practitioners.
GP-directed style showed varying autonomy for CAM practitioners; limited collaboration involved GPs performing CAM without referral.

Conclusions:

IM practice styles vary in interprofessional power-sharing and CAM practitioner roles.
Highly valued CAM practitioners with autonomy optimize the CAM workforce.
GP-directed and self-practice integrative styles were perceived to enhance patient safety by many practitioners.