Increasing interprofessional collaboration in community-based palliative care: a pilot study of the CAPACITI education program for primary care providers

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Table 1. Team characteristics (n = 17).

Team ID number	Number of CAPACITI participants	Prescribers (MD or NP)	Nurses (RN or RPN)	Other	Rural or urban location	Team Coordinator (TC) or Quality Improvement Specialist (QIS) district role on team
1	9	4	1	4	urban	no
2	5	1	2	2	urban	QIS
3	16	4	6	6	urban	no
4	10	4	3	3	rural	TC
5	7	5	2	0	urban	no
6	6	3	0	3	rural	no
7	11	1	5	5	rural	TC
8	6	4	0	2	rural	no
9	8	5	0	3	urban	QIS
10	5	2	2	1	rural	TC
11	8	1	4	3	urban	TC
12	8	4	1	3	urban	no
13	6	3	1	2	rural	TC
14	5	5	0	0	urban	no
15	7	2	4	1	rural	no
16	10	4	2	4	rural	TC
17	6	2	2	2	rural	TC

Table 2. AITCS item pre and pose CAPACITI mean scores and paired differences (n = 17).

Item (When we are working as a team all of my team members …)	Pre CAPACITI		Post CAPACITI		Paired Difference*
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
1. Include patients in setting goals for their care ^A	3.85	0.87	4.29	0.67	0.44	0.68
2. Listen to the wishes of their patients when determining the process of care chosen by the team ^A	4.12	0.95	4.41	0.69	0.29	0.84
3. Meet and discuss patient care on a regular basis ^A	3.35	0.97	3.76	0.73	0.41	0.91
4. Coordinate health and social services based upon patient care needs ^A	3.59	1.03	4.06	0.64	0.47	0.92
5. Are involved in goal setting for each patient ^A	3.65	0.85	4.00	0.69	0.35	0.78
6. Use consistent communication within team to discuss patient care ^A	3.53	0.9	4.00	0.59	0.47	0.79
7. Encourage and use the knowledge and skills that each of us can bring in developing plans of care ^A	3.47	0.92	4.00	0.59	0.53	0.78
8. Work with the patient and relatives in adjusting care plans ^A	3.88	0.90	4.00	0.59	0.12	0.76
9. Share power with each other ^B	3.79	0.96	4.29	0.57	0.50	0.87
10. Respect and trust each other ^B	4.35	0.74	4.76	0.42	0.41	0.75
11. Are open and honest with each other ^B	4.26	0.55	4.59	0.49	0.32	0.66
12. Make changes to their team functioning based on reflective reviews ^B	3.62	0.96	3.82	0.71	0.21	0.96
13. Strive to achieve mutually satisfying resolution for differences of opinions ^B	3.88	0.92	4.24	0.55	0.35	0.95
14. Understand the boundaries of what each other can do ^B	4.12	0.92	4.35	0.59	0.24	0.96
15. Understand that there are shared knowledge and skills between health providers on the team ^B	4.09	0.94	4.47	0.5	0.38	0.76
16. Establish a sense of trust among the team members ^B	4.09	1.00	4.65	0.48	0.56	0.84
17. Apply a unique definition of interprofessional collaborative practice to the practice setting ^C	3.91	0.91	4.25	0.56	0.38	0.93
18. Equally divide agreed upon goals amongst the team ^C	3.35	0.84	4.06	0.56	0.69	0.92
19. Encourage and support open communication, including the patients and their relatives during team meetings ^C	3.71	1.02	4.25	1.09	0.56	1.32
20. Use an agreed upon process to resolve conflicts ^C	3.29	1.19	3.69	0.92	0.41	1.21
21. Together select the leader for our team (to lead the patient’s care plan) ^C	3.41	1.14	3.88	0.99	0.50	1.06
22. Support the leader for the team, varying depending on the needs of our patients ^C	3.85	0.94	4.06	1.03	0.22	1.07
23. Openly support inclusion of the patient in our team meetings (about the patient) ^C	3.41	1.27	4.00	1.06	0.53	1.32
Sub-domain: Partnership (Mean, items 1 to 8)^A	3.68	0.84	4.07	0.51	0.39†	0.58†
Sub-domain: Cooperation (Mean, items 9 to 16)^B	4.03	0.81	4.40	0.39	0.37†	0.67†
Sub-domain: Coordination (Mean, items 17 to 24)^C **	3.56	0.96	4.03	0.77	0.47	0.95
AITCS Summary Score (items 1 to 24) **	86.59	19.3	96.3	10.500.0	9.41†	16.01†

*Individual Paired Differences = Post – Pre CAPACITI score.

**Post CAPACITI n = 16.

†Bolded subdomain and summary scores indicates p < .05.

Sub-domain scores range from 1 to 5 with higher numbers constituting greater interprofessional collaboration.

Summary score ranges from 23 to 115.

^ASub-domain=Partnership.

^BSub-domain=Cooperation.

^CSub-domain=Coordination.

Table 3. Individual team AITCS scores pre CAPACITI and pre/post-paired differences (n = 17).

	Pre CAPACITI				Pre/Post Paired Difference*
Team	Partnership (Range 1(least)-5(most)	Cooperation (Range 1(least)-5(most)	Coordination (Range 1(least)-5(most)	AITCS Summary Score (Range 23–115)	Partnership	Cooperation	Coordination	AITCS Summary Score
1	3.88	4.25	4.14	94	−0.25	−0.25	−0.71	−9
2	4.25	4.25	4.00	96	−0.13	−0.13	−0.14	−3
3	4.25	4.38	4.21	99	0.25	0.13	−0.64	−2
4	4.63	4.75	4.57	107	0	−0.25	0	−2
5	3.88	5.00	4.57	103	0.25	−0.25	−0.14	−1
6	4.00	4.00	4.00	92	0	−0.13	0	−1
7	4.63	4.88	4.43	107	0.13	−0.13	0.29	2
8	3.38	3.75	2.29	73	0.13	0.75	−0.43	4
9	3.44	3.69	3.64	83	0.31	0.31	missing	missing
10	3.50	3.50	2.71	75	0.38	0.25	0.43	8
11	3.63	4.38	3.29	87	−0.25	0.38	1.29	10
12	3.75	3.88	3.57	86	0.38	0.63	0.57	12
13	4.00	4.50	4.00	96	0.50	0.38	0.86	13
14	3.75	4.00	3.57	87	0.63	0.75	0.57	15
15	4.00	4.50	4.14	97	0.88	0.50	0.86	17
16	2.63	3.25	2.43	64	1.38	0.88	1.71	30
17	1.00	1.50	1.00	27	2.00	2.50	3.00	57

*Individual Paired Differences = Post – Pre CAPACITI score.