Inter-professional collaboration is a process in which health professionals from different\ndisciplines work together, sharing their ideas and opinions to plan evidence-based care. Nurses and\ndoctors spend most of their time providing direct patient care. Therefore, effective interprofessional\ncollaboration may be important in ensuring safe and effective patient care. There are no systematic\nreviews that have evaluated the association between nurseâ??doctor collaboration and patient outcomes\nin medical and surgical settings. We will conduct a systematic search of five key databases MEDLINE,\nEMBASE, PsycInfo, CINAHL, and the Cochrane register. We will include observational and\nexperimental research that tests the association between levels of inter-professional collaboration\nand medical and surgical inpatient mortality. Two reviewers will independently conduct title and\nabstract, full-text screening, and data extraction. The Effective Public Health Practice (EPHPP) tool\nwill be used to determine the quality of the included studies. If sufficient studies are available, we will\nundertake a meta-analysis. The protocol is registered with the international prospective register of\nsystematic reviews (PROSPERO-CRD42019133543).
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