Table 1 Summary of healthcare CoP studies included in focused literature review
From: Needs assessment for the creation of a community of practice in a community health navigator cohort
Paper | Title | Members | Health care domain | Location | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Behl et al 2015 [35] | The Value of a Learning Community to Support Telepractice for Infants and Toddlers with Hearing Loss | Administrators and clinicians (audiologists) | Audiology | USA (UT) | Initial in-person meeting; monthly 90-min teleconferences (Adobe or traditional), Moodle, Google Docs |
Fingrut et al 2018 [23] | Building an oncology community of practice to improve cancer care | Family physicians, specialists, nurses, allied health professionals | Oncology | Canada (ON) | Meetings, seminars, roundtable discussion |
Fung-Kee-Fung et al 2014 [21] | Exploring a “community of practice” methodology as a regional platform for large-scale collaboration in cancer surgery—the Ottawa approach | Surgeons, oncologists, nurses, social workers, other physicians, public health leaders | Oncology | Canada (ON) | Workshops, regular in-person meetings, video conferences, seminars and presentations, steering committee |
David et al 2012 [27] | Clinicians’ expectations of Web 2.0 as a mechanism for knowledge transfer of stroke best practices | Occupational therapists, nurses, physiotherapists, specialists, speech pathologists, social workers | Stroke Care | Canada (QC) | Web platform (blogs, wikis, podcasts, discussion forums, virtual library) |
Wieringa et al 2018 [32] | How knowledge is constructed and exchanged in virtual communities of physicians: qualitative study of mindlines online | General practitioners | Primary Care | UK, Norway, Netherlands | Web platforms (Facebook, discussion forums) |
Tintorer et al 2015 [29] | Understanding the discriminant factors that influence the adoption and use of clinical communities of practice: the ECOPIH case | Physicians, nurses | Primary and Specialist Care | Spain | Web platform (online discussion forums, social media), cellphone communication |
Jeffs et al 2016 [24] | Contextualizing learning to improve care using collaborative communities of practices. | Nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists | Primary and Specialist Care | Canada (ON) | Learning modules, monthly meetings, symposiums |
Hurtubise et al 2016 [28] | Virtual knowledge brokering: describing the roles and strategies used by knowledge brokers in a pediatric physiotherapy virtual community of practice | Physiotherapists | Pediatric Physiotherapy | Canada (QC) | Private access web-platform (online forum, shared resources and clinical tools, links to documents and web links), 2 1-day workshops |
Boucher and MacIntyre 2015 [22] | Survey of a Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Community of Practice: A Pilot Study to Gain Member Input to Help Sustain and Advance the Group | Physiotherapists | Physiotherapy (Pelvic Health) | Canada (AB) | Regular in-person meetings, interest in web platform and social media |
Cassidy 2011 [34] | Online Communities of Practice to Support Collaborative Mental Health Practice in Rural Areas | Nurses | Primary Care (Rural) | USA (TN) | Web platform |
Francis-Coad et al 2018 [19] | Evaluating the impact of a falls prevention community of practice in a residential aged care setting: a realist approach | Allied health professionals, care deputy care managers | Geriatric Care | Australia | In-person meetings, emails, electronic discussion boards, posters/checklists |
Friberger and Falkman 2013 [30] | Collaboration processes, outcomes, challenges and enablers of distributed clinical communities of practice | Dentists, pathologists, oral surgeons | Oral Medicine (Dentistry and Oral Surgery) | Sweden | Monthly teleconferences, case submissions via web platform |
Hoffmann et al 2011 [20] | Evaluating an online occupational therapy community of practice and its role in supporting occupational therapy practice | Occupational therapists | Occupational Therapy | Australia | Web platform (online forums, special interest discussions), occasional in-person meetings |
Kislov et al 2012 [31] | Managing boundaries in primary care service improvement: A developmental approach to communities of practice | General practitioners, nurses, practice manager, specialists | Primary Care (Chronic Kidney Disease) | UK | In-person meetings, informal exchanges, quarterly seminars, teleconferences, web platform |
Kitto et al 2018 [25] | What’s in a name? Tensions between formal and informal communities of practice among regional subspecialty cancer surgeons | Surgical oncologists | Oncology | Canada (ON) | In-person meetings, teleconferences, email, websites, conferences, seminars, informal meetings |
Kothari et al 2015 [26] | Communities of practice for supporting health systems change: a missed opportunity | Nurses, dentists | Oral Medicine (Geriatric) | Canada (ON) | Webinars, in-person meetings, newsletters, online forums, online workshops |
Murty et al 2012 [33] | Using a LISTSERV to Develop a Community of Practice in End-of-Life, Hospice, and Palliative Care Social Work | Social workers | Social Work (Palliative Care) | USA | Electronic discussion group (LISTSERV), email |