“…The article's overall goal has been to describe in detail a common communicative practice in interprofessional collaboration in acute care, the patient case review, and to frame it as collective sensemaking (Weick et al, 2005;Weick, 1979bWeick, , 1995. This makes explicit the link-or even the equivalence-between communicative action and interprofessional collaboration (Morgan, Pullon, & McKinlay, 2015), thus adding to ongoing conversations about the determinants of successful collaboration . Rather than an input to collaboration, we argue here that communicative practice constitutes the collaboration itself, at least insofar as collaborative practice implies a shared definition of the (patient's) situation and the collective determination of shared goals (Billett, 2014;Careau et al, 2012;Quinlan & Robertson, 2010) if not shared decision-making.…”