“…The starting point for much of the theoretical and empirical research in this area is the dimensions and features of the 'active and ongoing partnership' that D'Amour et al [15] referred to or active boundary work referred to by Schot et al [17]. Research that has explored the dimensions of inter-disciplinary working points to a number of recurring themes including informal communications, co-location, shared processes and policies, shared knowledge creation, understanding of each other roles and responsibilities, professional hierarchies and power relations, and shared clinical decision making [7,8,16,23,25,28,29]. Repeated opportunity for effective, frequent, reciprocal informal communication emerges as the single most important and tangible observable output of interprofessional collaboration [16].…”