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How effective is teamwork really? The relationship between teamwork and performance in healthcare teams: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Jan B Schmutz, Laurenz L Meier, Tanja Manser

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Synthesis in BMJ open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 144 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

144 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Effectiveness of Communication Interventions in Obstetrics-A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  5. Psychometric evaluation of instruments measuring the work environment of healthcare professionals in hospitals: a systematic literature review.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jan B SchmutzDepartment of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA jan.schmutz@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0181-807X
Laurenz L MeierDepartment of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Tanja ManserFHNW School of Applied Psychology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo investigate the relationship between teamwork and clinical performance and potential moderating variables of this relationship.

designSystematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCE: PubMed was searched in June 2018 without a limit on the date of publication. Additional literature was selected through a manual backward search of relevant reviews, manual backward and forward search of studies included in the meta-analysis and contacting of selected authors via email. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Studies were included if they reported a relationship between a teamwork process (eg, coordination, non-technical skills) and a performance measure (eg, checklist based expert rating, errors) in an acute care setting. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS: Moderator variables (ie, professional composition, team familiarity, average team size, task type, patient realism and type of performance measure) were coded and random-effect models were estimated. Two investigators independently extracted information on study characteristics in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

resultsThe review identified 2002 articles of which 31 were included in the meta-analysis comprising 1390 teams. The sample-sized weighted mean correlation was

conclusionTeamwork has a medium-sized effect on performance. The analysis of moderators illustrated that teamwork relates to performance regardless of characteristics of the team or task. Therefore, healthcare organisations should recognise the value of teamwork and emphasise approaches that maintain and improve teamwork for the benefit of their patients.

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Clinical CompetenceCooperative BehaviorModels, TheoreticalPatient Care TeamChecklistHumanscommunicationmeta-analysisnon-technical skillsteamsteamwork

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PMID31515415
PMCPMC6747874

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