American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
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In an attempt to transform the health care system in the United States to improve upon the inadequacies and deficiencies of our current model, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine created a collaborative partnership to spell out what aspects of our health care system need to be remodeled. They envisioned that "interprofessional collaboration and coordination would be the 'norm,'"(1) because no discipline functions in isolation of others, certainly not in our intensive care units. ⋯ Richard S. Irwin, MD, Master FCCP Editor in Chief, CHEST.