Understanding teamwork in rapidly deployed interprofessional teams in intensive and acute care: A systematic review of reviews.

ABSTRACT: The rapid increase of acute and intensive care capacities in hospitals needed during the response to COVID-19 created an urgent demand for skilled healthcare staff across the globe. To upscale capacity, many hospitals chose to increase their teams in these departments with rapidly re-deployed inter-professional healthcare personnel, many of whom had no prior experience of working in a high-risk environment and were neither prepared nor trained for work on such wards. This systematic review of reviews examines the current evidence base for successful teamwork in rapidly deployed interprofessional teams in intensive and acute care settings, by assessing systematic reviews of empirical studies to inform future deployments and support of rapidly formed clinical teams. This study identified 18

SUBMITTER: Schilling S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387792 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature