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. 2023 Jun 26;12:e45179. doi: 10.2196/45179

Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Feature Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
Article type Any of the following published in a peer-reviewed journal:
  • Primary research approach and study design

  • Opinion pieces

  • Guidelines

  • Reviews

  • Meta-analyses

  • Meta-syntheses

  • Unpublished studies

  • Non–peer-reviewed research papers

  • Grey literature

  • Conference abstracts

  • Editorials

  • Book chapters

  • Records for which we are unable to obtain the full text

  • Studies that focus on students of health care professions

Language
  • English

  • French

  • German

  • Spanish

  • Portuguese

  • All other languages

Participants
  • DICCa among health care professionals, including medical doctors and nursing staff

  • Studies focusing on DICC between patient groups and health care practitioners

  • Studies focusing on individuals in the same health care profession within the same setting

Concept
  • DICC involving either at least two different groups of health care professionals

  • DICC among health care professionals working in similar roles but in different health care settings

  • All other DICC among health care professionals

Context
  • Any geographic and demographic health care setting

N/Ab

aDICC: digitally supported interprofessional communication and collaboration.

bN/A: not applicable.