Table 1.

Study Characteristics

Citation	Study Design	Setting	Participants	n*	Intervention
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.