Abstract
Understanding the impact that interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) might have on triple aim patient outcomes is of high interest to health care providers, educators, administrators, and policy makers. Before the work undertaken by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Minnesota, no standard mechanism to acquire and report outcome data related to interprofessional education and collaborative practice and its effect on triple aim outcomes existed. This article describes the development and adoption of the National Center Data Repository (NCDR) designed to capture data related to IPECP processes and outcomes to support analyses of the relationship of IPECP on the Triple Aim. The data collection methods, web-based survey design and implementation process are discussed. The implications of this informatics work to the field of IPECP and health care quality and safety include creating standardized capacity to describe interprofessional practice and measure outcomes connecting interprofessional education and collaborative practice to the triple aim within and across sites/settings, leveraging an accessible data collection process using user friendly web-based survey design to support large data scholarship and instrument testing, and establishing standardized data elements and variables that can potentially lead to enhancements to national/international information system and academic accreditation standards to further team-based, interprofessional, collaborative research in the field.
Highlights
Health care decision makers are calling for information and evidence clarifying the value-add of interprofessional education and care models (Institute of Medicine, 2015; Reeves, Perrier, Goldman, & Freeth, 2013; REFS)
In 2014, the Institute of Medicine charged a committee to ‘‘analyze the available data and information to determine the best methods for measuring the impact of interprofessional education (IPE) on specific aspects of health care delivery and health care systems functioning, such as IPE impacts on collaborative practice and patient outcomes’’
This paper describes the National Center’s Data Repository (NCDR) including the structure, databases and interface with the Nexus Innovation Network (NIN)
Summary
Health care decision makers are calling for information and evidence clarifying the value-add of interprofessional education and care models (Institute of Medicine, 2015; Reeves, Perrier, Goldman, & Freeth, 2013; REFS). The NIN data component utilizes web-based surveys to collect standardized data These surveys were developed by the National Center data team made up of people from the fields of medicine, nursing, informatics, epidemiology, health services research, program evaluation, and health professions education. Clinician participants are notified by intervention leaders (health system/ education system) about their relationship with the National Center They are invited to participate in the NCDR data collection efforts and are given written information on how to access and respond to the surveys in the NCDR (see Table I for individual responsibility for completing each survey). The NCDR coach and National Center scientific review team work with the leaders and data professionals for each intervention to define the outcome elements of the ISS ensuring standard measures are used whenever possible. The NCDR Third Party and Partnership data will augment this prospective effort
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