Accessibility, clarity, and organizational opportunities to enhance interprofessional collaboration in alcohol interventions: A qualitative study

Interprofessional collaboration structures seem to enhance collaboration among professionals, and, as a result, enhance the implementation of interventions targeting problematic drinking. Management of healthcare, social care, or public sector organizations should recognize that outsider-organizations may have limited access to these structures. They should therefore appoint network-oriented professionals to act as brokers, linking external organizations to enhance collaboration and information exchange. Additionally, organizations should provide flexible scheduling for their professionals so that they can concentrate on tasks beyond their immediate responsibilities, which will contribute to interprofessional collaboration and early detection of problematic drinking. Lastly, further research on intervention implementation should focus on expertise-development within teams to improve interprofessional collaboration, and consider how the perspectives of populations at risk for problematic drinking can be incorporated into collaboration-structures.