Inter-Professional Collaboration and Patient Mortality: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Inter-professional collaboration is a process in which health professionals from different disciplines work together, sharing their ideas and opinions to plan evidence-based care. Nurses and doctors spend most of their time providing direct patient care. Therefore, effective interprofessional collaboration may be important in ensuring safe and effective patient care. There are no systematic reviews that have evaluated the association between nurse-doctor collaboration and patient outcomes in medical and surgical settings. We will conduct a systematic search of five key databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycInfo, CINAHL, and the Cochrane register. We will include observational and experimental research that tests the association between levels of inter-professional collaboration and medical and su

SUBMITTER: Pantha S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8608100 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature