Table 1.
Citation | Study Design | Setting | Participants | n* | Intervention |
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Ahmed et al (2010)22 | quasi-experimental | AMC | geriatric service patients | control = 383 intervention = 1064 |
Acute Care for Elderly (ACE) team |
Arbaje et al (2014)27 | quasi-experimental | AMC | geriatric service patients | control = 118 intervention = 151 |
Geriatric Floating Interdisciplinary Transition Team (Geri-FITT) dyad |
Auerbach et al (2012)30 | quasi-experimental | AMC | general medicine unit patients | 313 | Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS), interprofessional education, and multidisciplinary team champions |
DeBehnke et al (2002)31 | quasi-experimental | AMC | emergency department patients | 454 | Physician-registered nurse dyads |
Finch et al (1999)23 | quasi-experimental | rural hospital | discharged patients | 121 | Multidisciplinary rounds |
Forster et al (2005)25 | experimental (RCT) | AMC (Canada) | general medicine unit patients | control=155 intervention=135 |
Physician-clinical nurse specialist dyads |
Gade et al (2008)28 | experimental (RCT) | varied | palliative care patients | control = 23 intervention = 275 |
Multidisciplinary care team |
Hastings et al (2016)26 | quasi-experimental | AMC (Canada) | general medical unit patients | baseline = 26 intervention = 37 |
Interprofessional coordination and multidisciplinary rounds |
Hung et al (2013)32 | quasi- experimental | urban tertiary care hospital | geriatric patients with acute illness | control = 173 intervention = 17 |
Mobile Acute Care for Elderly (MACE) unit |
Iannuzzi et al (2015)33 | quasi-experimental | AMC | general medical unit patients | resident team = ~562 MLP team = ~289 |
Hospitalist-MLP dyad vs hospitalist-resident dyad |
Kane et al (2016)34 | quasi-experimental | AMC | general medical unit patients | not provided | Team huddles with “playbook” for bed management and daily multidisciplinary team report for discharges |
Kara et al (2015)35 | quasi-experimental | AMC | general medical unit patients and surgical unit patients | 110 | Accountable care team |
Laird-Fick et al (2011)36 | quasi-experimental | community hospital | adult emergency department patients | control = 81 intervention = 86 |
Interprofessional education and collaboration |
San Martin- Rodriguez et al (2008)37 | non-experimental (cross-sectional) | AMC (Spain) | general medical unit patients with cancer | 312 | Low- vs high-intensity interprofessional teams |
Menefee et al (2014)38 | quasi-experimental | rural hospital | general medical unit patients | 217 | Menefee model and interdisciplinary plan of care |
Preen et al (2005)24 | experimental (RCT) | tertiary care hospital (Australia) | patients with chronic cardiorespiratory disease | 128 | Multidisciplinary discharge planning team |
Roy et al (2008)39 | quasi- experimental | AMC | general medical service patients | control = 4202 intervention = 992 |
Multidisciplinary hospitalist team |
Scotten et al (2015)29 | quasi-experimental | AMC | pediatric patients and families | preintervention = 70 postintervention = 41 |
Multifaceted interprofessional education and collaborative project |
Southwick et al (2014)40 | quasi-experimental | AMC | hospitalized patients on medicine resident team | control = 44 intervention = 46 |
Multidisciplinary rounds |
Townsend-Gervis et al (2014)41 | quasi-experimental | suburban hospital | medical/surgical unit patients | not provided | Structured communication tool (SBAR) and interdisciplinary rounds |
Wray et al (2016)42 | quasi-experimental | AMC | general medicine patients on resident and nonteaching services | general medicine = 4591 hospitalist = 1811 |
Physician-only team (general medicine team) vs interprofessional dyad (hospitalist-NP/PA dyad) |
AMC, academic medical center; RCT, randomized controlled trial; MLP, midlevel practitioner; NP/PA, nurse practitioner/physician assistant.