Interprofessional collaboration in general practice

Kylie Vuong; Frances Barraclough; Mina Bakhit; Parker Magin; Catherine Stephen

doi:10.1071/HC24160

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Interprofessional collaboration in general practice

Kylie Vuong

¹ ^* , Frances Barraclough ² , Mina Bakhit

³ , Parker Magin

⁴ ⁵ , Catherine Stephen ⁶

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¹ School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Southport, Qld, Australia.

² University Centre for Rural Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Lismore, NSW, Australia.

³ Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Robina, Qld, Australia.

⁴ School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

⁵ School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.

⁶ School of Nursing, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: k.vuong@griffithuni.edu.au

Handling Editor: Felicity Goodyear-Smith

Journal of Primary Health Care https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24160

Submitted: 29 October 2024 Accepted: 17 February 2025 Published: 7 March 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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