Knowledge Sharing in Chinese Hospitals: Identifying Sharing Barriers in Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Collaboration

by Lihong Zhou, J Miguel Baptista Nunes, Miguel Baptista Nunes, et al.

Book Overview

This book aims to identify, understand and qualify barriers to the patient-centred knowledge sharing (KS) in interprofessional practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine (WM) healthcare professionals in Chinese hospitals. This collaboration is particularly crucial and unique to China since, contrary to Western practice, these two types of professionals actually work together complimentary in the same hospital. This study adopted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662451611
• ISBN13: 9783662451618
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"