Queensland Centre for Mothers & Babies, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Q 4072, Australia.
Women Birth. 2011 Jun;24(2):53-7. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2011.02.002. Epub 2011 Mar 5.
Within maternity services, collaboration between maternity care professionals appears problematic in spite of widespread support for collaborative practice amongst stakeholders.
The objective of this paper was to examine and to clarify what the key elements of interprofessional collaboration are and how they relate to maternity care in Australia.
A review of the literature was performed to identify key characteristics of collaboration. All papers, theoretical and empirical, that discussed the concept of collaborative practice between professionals were considered.
Currently there are inconsistencies around the concept of collaboration in terms of definitions, characteristics and language. A comprehensive definition was developed that incorporates elements of collaboration suitable for the various professions involved in the provision of maternity care in Australia. The recently developed national criteria for 'collaborative arrangements' in maternity care, however, does not contain the elements of our proposed definition and may discourage collaboration between primary maternity care providers.
The proposed definition could be useful in further development of collaborative arrangements within maternity care and assist to further inform research on collaborative practice.
在产科服务中，尽管利益相关者普遍支持协作实践，但产科保健专业人员之间的协作似乎存在问题。
本文的目的是检验并阐明专业间协作的关键要素是什么，以及它们与澳大利亚的产科护理有何关系。
对文献进行了回顾，以确定协作的关键特征。所有讨论专业之间协作实践概念的理论和实证论文都被考虑在内。
目前，在协作的概念方面，定义、特征和语言存在不一致之处。制定了一个全面的定义，其中包含了适合澳大利亚提供产科护理的各个专业的协作要素。然而，最近为产科护理制定的“协作安排”的国家标准不包含我们提出的定义的要素，这可能会阻碍初级产科护理提供者之间的协作。
所提出的定义可用于进一步发展产科护理中的协作安排，并有助于进一步为协作实践的研究提供信息。
