Strengthening health systems response to COVID-19: interprofessional science rising to the challenge

Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID-19

“…communication and support measures) inadequate for producing a sense of material and psychological safety for staff, even when local epidemiological conditions may not match the worst affected regions. At a local level, these shifting “imagined communities of risk” ( Beck 2011 ) may hinder the interprofessional collaborations that have been central to hospitals' crisis pandemic responses ( Xyrichis and Williams 2020 ). In our study settings, multidisciplinary communities of practice, interprofessional simulation teams ( Failla and Macauley, 2014 ), and interdepartmental COVID committees were convened to share expertise and shape the hospitals' response.…”

Interprofessional work in health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

“…These were also aspects mentioned in the analyzed studies and that reverberated in improvement of the quality of health care. Coping with complex problems such as those arising from the COVID-19 pandemic was largely successful due to the ordering of health practices based on subjects' needs, making it possible to perceive the relevance of interprofessionality (27) . In a scenario of many uncertainties, communication and horizontal relationships were essential for safe and quality care.…”

“…The speed with which the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic spread throughout the world, made urgent the need for readaptation and reorganization of hospitals to ensure safe care to the population. The seriousness of the cases and the lack of evidence for treatment required a quick response from health organizations to qualify the workforce and ensure effective and resolute care for people with COVID-19 (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32) . Many hospitals have invested in building and strengthening different forms of interprofessional work to fight the pandemic through the integration of different scopes of health practices and services.…”

“…However, the scarcity of studies in PHC demonstrates the lack of leading role of this service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although PHC is not directly related to the intensive care of patients with COVID-19, it is shown to be potent in preventing contamination, decreasing incidence rates, follow-up of suspected and/or confirmed cases, encouragement to adhere to social distancing, among various tasks necessary to fight the pandemic (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31) . It could be used as a key service and care coordinator, fulfilling its role of prevention and health promotion, acting collaboratively with other services in the care network, strengthening this line of care, reducing the burden of medium and high complexity services and improving the quality of comprehensive health care.…”

“…One cannot deny the advances and agility in the responses in a short period of time in several countries during the pandemic. It became evident and apparent that the interprofessional collaborative practice, at any level of care, constituted the best way that health systems could successfully respond to the challenge of COVID-19 (27) . limitation This study had as limitations the fact that it analyzed studies in Portuguese, English and Spanish, which made it impossible to analyze other studies, mainly from countries with vast experience in dealing with COVID-19 and interprofessional practices, such as the case of China, a developed country in that the pandemic started.…”