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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 27.
Published in final edited form as: Diagnosis (Berl). 2016 May 31;3(2):49–59. doi: 10.1515/dx-2016-0009

Table 4.

Definitions of key terms related to teamwork, listed from least to most collaborative [47].

  • Intradisciplinary: working within a single discipline

  • Crossdisciplinary: viewing one discipline from the perspective of another

  • Multidisciplinary: people from different disciplines working together, each drawing on their disciplinary knowledge

  • Interdisciplinary: integrating knowledge and methods from different disciplines, using a real synthesis of approaches

  • Transdisciplinary: creating a unity of intellectual frameworks beyond the disciplinary perspectives