What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The purpose of this study was to conduct a scoping review of the literature about the establishment and impact of quality and safety team initiatives in acute care.

Methods

Studies were identified through electronic searches of Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ABI Inform, Cochrane databases. Grey literature and bibliographies were also searched. Qualitative or quantitative studies that occurred in acute care, describing how quality and safety teams were established or implemented, the impact of teams, or the barriers and/or facilitators of teams were included. Two reviewers independently extracted data on study design, sample, interventions, and outcomes. Quality assessment of full text articles was done independently by two reviewers. Studies were categorized a

SUBMITTER: White DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3189393 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature