Transdisciplinarity in Health Care: A Concept Analysis

Abstract

An enhanced definition of transdisciplinarity in health care emerged from this concept analysis that may provide clarity and direction for health care providers. Nurses, and other health care providers, can look to this definition to understand transdisciplinary health care teams as opposed to multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary ones.

Patient-Centric Care for Parkinson's Disease: From Hospital to the Community

“…In recognition that collaboration may improve patient care, healthcare professionals are increasingly required to work together to share expertise, knowledge, and skills. In transdisciplinary care, team members work jointly using a shared conceptual framework that draws together concepts, theories, and approaches from multiple disciplines in order to define, address, and resolve complex real-world problems, whereas in the interdisciplinary approach, they are working together but from individual disciplinary perspectives to address a common problem (4). Multidisciplinary care, on the other hand, is working in parallel or sequentially from disciplinary-specific frames to address common problems (4).…”

Percepção Da Equipe De Enfermagem Quanto À Assistência Provida Em Uma Unidade De Internação

“…Sabe-se hoje, da grande importância do atendimento e trabalho multiprofissional em saúde, onde os membros da equipe reúnem esforços para assistir aos indivíduos em suas necessidades. O processo de trabalho exige dos trabalhadores a convivência com distintos saberes e poderes peculiares às relações interprofissionais, direcionados à alteridade 9 .…”

“…O trabalho em equipe tem como um dos objetivos a obtenção de impacto sobre os diferentes fatos que interferem no processo saúde/doença. A atuação multiprofissional deve ser interdisciplinar ou transdisciplinar, que consiste em fornecer a possibilidade da prática de um profissional se reconstruir na prática do outro, ambas sendo transformadas para a intervenção 9,10 . Nesse contexto, é relevante que os profissionais que compõem a equipe multiprofissional tenham um bom relacionamento e consigam estabelecer projetos assistenciais compartilhados 10 .…”

Failing better: a new paradigm of care

“…The remainder of the WHO's definition of palliative care identifies the field's expertise in Bprevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual.^[1] These final qualifiersBphysical, psychosocial, and spiritual^-help emphasize an important shift from multidisciplinary approaches to care (different clinical disciplines represented on site) to interdisciplinary (working synchronously across disciplinary boundaries) or even transdisciplinary (working to integrate beyond distinct disciplinary boundaries) [9]. The effectiveness of such shift reflects the underlying nature of suffering with a serious progressive illness.…”