Table 2

Key outcomes

OutcomeDetails
Level 1: ReactionThese outcomes cover learners’ general views and perspectives on the learning experience, its organisation, presentation, content, teaching methods and organisation (eg, time-tabling, materials, quality of teaching).
Level 2a: Modification of attitudes/perceptionsThese outcomes relate to changes in reciprocal interprofessional attitudes or perceptions between participant groups, towards patients/clients and their conditions, circumstances, care and treatment.
Level 2b: Acquisition of knowledge/skillsThese outcomes relate to the acquisition of concepts, procedures and principles of interprofessional collaboration. For skills, this relates to the acquisition of thinking/problem-solving, psychomotor and social skills linked to collaboration.
Level 3: Behavioural changeOutcomes at this level measure the transfer of interprofessional skills and learning to workplace, such as support for change of behaviour in the workplace or willingness of learners to apply new knowledge and skills about collaborative work to their practice style.
Level 4a: Change in organisational practiceThese outcomes relate to wider changes in the organisation/delivery of care, attributable to an education programme, such as changes in organisational policies or clinical pathways that promote interprofessional collaboration, communication and teamwork.
Level 4b: Benefits to patients/clientsThese outcomes cover any improvements in the health and well-being of patients/clients as a direct result of a programme, such as health status measures, disease incidence, duration or cure rates, mortality, complication rates, readmission rates, adherence rates, patient or family satisfaction, continuity of care, costs to carer or patient/client.