PMID- 29161155
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180827
LR  - 20180827
IS  - 1469-9567 (Electronic)
IS  - 1356-1820 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 2
DP  - 2018 Mar
TI  - The use of virtual communities of practice to improve interprofessional 
      collaboration and education: findings from an integrated review.
PG  - 136-142
LID - 10.1080/13561820.2017.1377692 [doi]
AB  - The recent growth in online technology has led to a rapid increase in the sharing 
      of health related information globally. Health and social care professionals are 
      now using a wide range of virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) for learning, 
      support, continuing professional education, knowledge management and information 
      sharing. In this article, we report the findings from a review of the literature 
      that explored the use of VCoPs by health and social care professionals to 
      determine their potential for interprofessional education and collaboration. We 
      employed integrated review methods to search and identify relevant VCoP articles. 
      We undertook searches of PubMed and Google Scholar from 2000, which after 
      screening, resulted in the inclusion of 19 articles. A thematic analysis 
      generated the following key issues related to the use of VCoPs: 'definitions and 
      approaches', 'technological infrastructure', 'reported benefits', 'participation 
      issues', 'trust and privacy and 'technical ability'. Based on the findings from 
      this review, there is some evidence that VCoPs can offer an informal method of 
      professional and interprofessional development for clinicians, and can decrease 
      social and professional isolation. However, for VCoPs to be successful, issues of 
      privacy, trust, encouragement and technology need to be addressed.
FAU - McLoughlin, Clodagh
AU  - McLoughlin C
AD  - a Research & Advocacy , iheed , Dublin , Ireland.
FAU - Patel, Kunal D
AU  - Patel KD
AD  - a Research & Advocacy , iheed , Dublin , Ireland.
AD  - b Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education , Kingston University & St Georges 
      University , London , UK.
FAU - O'Callaghan, Tom
AU  - O'Callaghan T
AD  - a Research & Advocacy , iheed , Dublin , Ireland.
FAU - Reeves, Scott
AU  - Reeves S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0573-0622
AD  - b Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education , Kingston University & St Georges 
      University , London , UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20171121
PL  - England
TA  - J Interprof Care
JT  - Journal of interprofessional care
JID - 9205811
SB  - IM
MH  - Confidentiality
MH  - Education, Distance/*methods
MH  - Health Occupations/*education
MH  - Humans
MH  - Internet
MH  - *Interprofessional Relations
MH  - Social Media/*organization & administration
MH  - Social Networking
MH  - Social Work/*education
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Communities of practice
OT  - integrative review
OT  - internet
OT  - interprofessional collaboration
OT  - interprofessional education
OT  - social media
OT  - virtual communities of practice
EDAT- 2017/11/22 06:00
MHDA- 2018/08/28 06:00
CRDT- 2017/11/22 06:00
PHST- 2017/11/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/08/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/11/22 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/13561820.2017.1377692 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Interprof Care. 2018 Mar;32(2):136-142. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2017.1377692. 
      Epub 2017 Nov 21.