title: Exploring a "community of practice" methodology as a regional platform for large-scale collaboration in cancer surgery-the Ottawa approach.
abstract: Pressing challenges have forced health care providers to rethink traditional silos and professional boundaries. Communities of practice (cops) have been identified as a means to share knowledge across silos and boundaries. However, clarity sufficient to enable their easy and uniform reproducibility is lacking, leading to a gap between cop conceptualization and implementation. This paper explores a cop structure and outlines a framework that is adaptable, measurable, and implementable across health disciplines in a regional cancer surgery program.
authors: Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Fung-Kee-Fung
authors: Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
authors: R P
authors: RP
authors: Boushey
authors: The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Program, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Morash
keywords: Community of practice; health care services research; knowledge translation; quality improvement; regional collaborations