3 49 The differences in content of health care plans The four plans contained a total of 103 items. Four items were not written down by any of the students. Within the other 99 items, there is a spread of 1 to 100% of the students that identified a specific item. Twenty items were significantly more often identified by the IPE-group than by the UPE-group. There were no items more often identified by the UPE-group than the IPE-group. The 20 items, that the IPE-group identified significantly more often than the UPEgroup, are spread over the five different categories unequally. Table 3.5 shows to which category the items belong. To see which category has the largest proportion of items on which IPE-plans score higher than UPE-plans, ratios were calculated, which are depicted in the last column in Table 3.5. Table 3.5: Number of items of which the IPE-group performed significantly better than UPE-group, for each category Category Total items IPE sign. more often than UPE Ratio Diagnostics 31 3 0.097 Medication 10 4 0.400 Consulting different specialists 11 1 0.090 Nursing actions 46 10 0.217 Aftercare 5 2 0.400 DISCUSSION This study explored the differences in content of health care plans of students in interprofessional education versus those of students in an uniprofessional setting. The IPE health care plans had significantly higher score ratios than the UPE health care plans, which means that the IPE health care plans consisted of more correct items than the UPE health care plans. In our earlier research, we were unable to validate the assessment of the standard health care plan because of a lack of agreement between experts (Teuwen et al., 2020). For this reason we advise caution in concluding that the plans of the IPE group were better than the plans of the UPE group. Variation in assessment of different experts is a well-known issue (Swanson et al., 2006). Nevertheless we can conclude that IPE couples were able to write down more correct items than UPE students. This could possibly lead to more correct actions for a real patient in clinical practice. In this study twenty out of a total of 103 items were significantly identified more in one group than in the other. All twenty items were in favor of the IPE group. These items were found in all of the five subcategories: diagnostics, medication, consulting
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