Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Healthcare - Article Example

The article discussed the merits of including lawyers in an interdisciplinary healthcare team and was published in the International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society. In the second article, three medical doctors and two registered nurses narrated an interdisciplinary collaboration in studying how glucose control can be improved in an intensive care unit. This is an article by Ulrike Holzinger, MD, Monika Feldbacher, RN, Adelbert Bachlechner, RN, Reinhard Kitzberger, MD, and Christian Madl, MD. The article was published by the American Journal of Critical Care. The citation page of the International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society describes that journal “is peer-reviewed, supported by the rigorous process of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published.” In a similar manner, the official website of the American Journal of Critical Care describes the journal in its official website in http://ajcc.aacnjournanls.org as “an official peer-reviewed publication” of the American Critical-Care Nurses. ...
ploying a holistic, collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to health care by joining lawyers can improve health status, especially for patients from racial or ethnic minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds who directly are affected by health disparities.” In elaborating on the idea, the authors described the operation of “a partnership among an urban-based pediatric health system, an urban-based legal services organization, and a state university law school” (130). The partnership of the community collaboration has been known as the Health Law Partnership (HeLP). The HeLP operation was deemed important to describe because the authors believe that the partnership and its experience “provide a template for developing successful collaboration” (Bliss et al., 130). Very importantly, the article described “the necessary steps to devise a plan to develop, fund, evaluate and sustain a community collaboration that connects doctors and lawyers in an effective partnership that fosters health and wellness and improves community conditions” (Bliss et al., 130). HeLP was organized to address the “multiple determinants of children’s health and well-being by combining the expertise of health care and legal professionals in a sustained community partnership” (Bliss et al., 130). However, on further reading of the article, it turned out that the collaboration described by Bliss et al., was not limited to the collaboration between health professionals and lawyers. It is actually a community partnership in which the three main partners had been the Children’s Healthcare Atlanta, the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and Georgia State University’s College of Law (GSU). In advancing health, the partnership provided direct health services as well as legal ...Show more