Table 2 Dimensions of the Structuration Model of Collaboration and the Model of Nurse-Physician Interaction

1

Mutual trust and respect

C, S

2

Formalisation tools (policies, protocols, agreements)

C, S

3

Communication/behaviour tendencies/Information exchange

C, S

4

Compatible role perceptions/mutual acquaintanceship

C, S

5

Joint goal setting and decision making

C, S

6

Complementary management of influencing variables/Client-centred orientation vs other allegiances

C, S

7

Conditions of power symmetry

C

8

Traditions of professionalization

C

9

Traditional gender/role norms

C

10

Personal attitudes

C

11

Complexity of care environment (the higher, the more collaboration)

C

12

Prevalent social reality

C

13

Nursing/medical school curricula

C

14

Support for innovation

S

15

Connectivity (opportunities for discussion and adjustment of coordination problems, for example information and feedback systems, meetings, committees etc.

S

16

Centrality (authorities that provide clear directions that foster collaboration, inherits a strategic and political role)

S

17

Leadership (local person)

S