Team interventions in acute hospital contexts: a systematic search of the literature using realist synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on team effectiveness in healthcare has focussed on whether effective teams yield positive outcomes for patients and on the effectiveness of team interventions to improve performance. Limited understanding exists of what works for whom within an effective team, or how and why the context in which the team operates enables team members both as individuals and as a collective to enact behaviours that promote positive outcomes.

Methods

This realist synthesis of the literature explores the relationship between team interventions, underlying teamwork mechanisms generated by those interventions, and the resultant impact on patient outcomes in an acute hospital context. A systematic search of five healthcare and healthcare management academic databases: PubMed,

SUBMITTER: Cunningham U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042358 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature