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Articles meeting selection criteria for inclusion
Atwal and Caldwell24 | Multidisciplinary | Team members “having different professional backgrounds but who make complementary contributions to patient care” | UK | Acute care – hospital wards | Elder care Orthopedics Acute medicine | Doctor, nurse, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, and social worker |
Black11 | Interdisciplinary | Team members “[interact] to produce a final outcome on behalf of patients” | USA | Hospital – private, not-for-profit | Elder care | Medicine, nursing, and social work |
Chan et al27 | Multidisciplinary | “Team care coordinated by a leader who takes responsibility for overall patient care. Members contribute views and recommendations according to their particular expertise, which may be integrated by the leader” | Australia | General practice and community health care | Chronic disease | General practitioners and allied health providers including podiatrists, optometrists, diabetes educators, dietitians, cardiac rehabilitation workers, exercise physiologists, and psychologists |
Cioffi et al28 | Multidisciplinary | Use the definition provided by Schofield and Amodeo19: “a number of individuals from various disciplines [who] are involved in a project but work independently” | Australia | Community health care | Chronic disease | Community nurses, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, and social workers |
Delva et al31 | Interdisciplinary | “Groups of professionals who work collaboratively to develop processes and plans for patients” | Canada | University primary care teaching practice | Primary care | Teaching teams consisting of physicians, nurses, resident physicians, receptionist, secretaries, nutritionists, social workers, and administrative staff |
Gibbon et al25 | Interprofessional | “‘Processes’ of intervention” | UK | Hospital – stroke rehabilitation units | Stroke patients | Nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, social workers, and clinical psychologist |
Multiprofessional | “The ‘structural’ components of a team” | UK | Hospital – stroke rehabilitation units | Stroke patients | Nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, social workers, and clinical psychologist | |
Goldsmith et al29 | Interdisciplinary | “Collaboration among health care providers with specialized knowledge from multiple disciplines” | USA | Veterans Affairs hospital | Geriatric and palliative care | Social worker, chaplain, psychologist, nurse, and doctors |
Haggerty et al33 | Multidisciplinary | “Practitioners from various health disciplines collaborate in providing ongoing health care” | Canada | Community | Primary health care | Study based on Canadian primary health care experts: family physicians, nurses, academics, and decision makers |
Kim et al60 | Multidisciplinary | Specific to primary health care the authors define multidisciplinary as “PHC [primary health care] delivered by health professionals from multiple disciplines, including nurses, physicians, dentists, and public health doctors” | Korea | Nursing faculty and primary health care | Primary health care | Nurse, physician, social workers, and dentists |
Kuder et al30 | Interdisciplinary | “A team integrates its various disciplinary perspectives and maintains a network of cooperation and communication” | USA | Rural geriatric health care | Gerontology | Physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant, pharmacist, and social worker |
Kvarnström26 | Interprofessional | “‘Inter’ relates to the dimension of collaboration […] ‘profession’ […] differentiates from the term ‘discipline’ in the sense that disciplines may be regarded as academic disciplines as well as sub-specialities within professions” | Sweden | Swedish local health care settings | Primary care, psychiatric care, geriatric care, rehabilitation | Occupational therapist, registered nurse, physiotherapist, medical social worker, administrative assistant, physician, practical nurse, psychologist, and speech therapist |
Mills et al35 | Interprofessional | “Teams work jointly to provide health care, where each member of the team contributes within the context of his or her profession” | Australia | Remote or isolated | Primary health care | Medical officers, specialist nurses, indigenous health workers, local indigenous health service managers, distant health service managers, and allied health professionals |
Molleman et al36 | Multidisciplinary | “Care providers with a range of occupational backgrounds collectively discussing a patient leading to collective decision-making and action” | Holland | N/A – survey distributed to medical specialists (nonspecific to setting) | Oncology and geriatrics | Geriatric team: head of geriatric department, clinical geriatrician, geriatrician internist, resident internal medicine specialist, psychiatrist, neurologist, social worker, specialized nurses, and psychologist Oncology team: intern oncologist, hematologist, specialized nurse, internal medicine resident, radiotherapist, social worker, dietitian, physiotherapist, mental care assistant, clinical chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist |
Molleman et al44 | Multidisciplinary | Use the terminology in the context of medical teamwork: “work arrangement in which physicians from different medical specialities regularly meet to share, weigh and synthesize information concerning individual patients from a specific patient group, and where they, at least to some extent, collectively make decisions about diagnoses and treatment” | Holland | Hospital | Medical specialties | Physicians from different medical specialties |
Shaw32 | Interprofessional | Use the definition provided by D’Amour and Oandasan33: “The development of cohesive practice between professionals from different disciplines […] it involves continuous interaction and knowledge sharing between professionals […] all while seeking to optimize the patient’s participation” | Canada | Family health center in an urban teaching hospital | Primary care | Nurse, family physician, family medicine residents, dietitian, and pharmacist |
Solheim et al23 | Multidisciplinary | “Members maintain discipline-specific roles” | USA | Community | Primary health care | Nurse (nurse participants identified physicians and social workers as collaborators in team-based primary health care) |
Spencer and Cooper45 | Multidisciplinary | “Interdependency with other professionals and being able to combine perceptions and skills to synthesise a more complex and comprehensive plan of care” | UK | Hospital | Type 1 diabetes | General pediatric consultant, specialist nurse, specialist dietitian, and general psychologist |