TABLE 1.

Operational definitions of interprofessional concepts¹

Interprofessional education	When students of ≥2 professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health care
Interprofessional collaborative practice	When multiple health care workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, caregivers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care
Interprofessional teamwork	The levels of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration characterizing the relations between professions in delivering patient-centered care
Interprofessional team-based care	Care delivered by intentionally created, usually relatively small work groups in health care, who are recognized by others as well as by themselves as having a collective identity and shared responsibility for a patient or group of patients
Professional competencies in health care	Integrated enactment of knowledge, skills, and values/attitudes that define the domains of work of a particular health care profession applied in specific care contexts
Interprofessional competencies in health care	Integrated enactment of knowledge, skills, and values/attitudes that define working across the professions, with other health care workers, and with patients, along with families and communities, as appropriate, to improve health outcomes in specific care contexts
Interprofessional competency domain	A generally defined cluster of more specific interprofessional competencies that are conceptually linked and serve as theoretical constructs

¹Adapted from reference 8.