Abstract
Teamwork among health care professionals has been found to improve patient outcomes and reduce burnout. Surveys from individual team members are often used to measure the effectiveness of teamwork performance, as they provide an efficient way to capture various constructs of teamwork. This allows evaluators to better understand team functioning, areas of strength, and to identify potential areas for improvement. However, the majority of published surveys are yet to be validated. We conducted a review of psychometric evidence to identify instruments frequently used in practice and identified in the literature. The databases searched included MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO. After excluding duplicates and irrelevant articles, 15 articles met the inclusion criteria for full assessment. Seven surveys were validated and most frequently identified in the literature. This review aims to facilitate the selection of instruments that are most appropriate for research and clinical practice. More research is required to develop surveys that better reflect the current reality of teamwork in our evolving health system, including a greater consideration for patient as team members. Additionally, more research is needed to encompass an increasing development of team assessment tools.
Highlights
Teamwork among health care professionals has been found to improve patient outcomes and reduce burnout
After all relevant systematic reviews were identified, detailed information was extracted into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with the following categories: purpose of the review, applicable health care setting, dimensions of teamwork, search strategy, theoretical framework that guided the search, risk of bias assessment, list of instruments
We conducted a review of psychometric evidence to identify robust instruments in the literature that measure teamwork in health care settings and report on their theoretical underpinnings, psychometric properties, limitations, and practicality
Summary
Teamwork among health care professionals has been found to improve patient outcomes and reduce burnout. Surveys from individual team members are often used to measure the effectiveness of teamwork performance, as they provide an efficient way to capture various constructs of teamwork. This allows evaluators to better understand team functioning, areas of strength, and to identify potential areas for improvement. We conducted a review of psychometric evidence to identify instruments frequently used in practice and identified in the literature. Seven surveys were validated and most frequently identified in the literature. More research is required to develop surveys that better reflect the current reality of teamwork in our evolving health system, including a greater consideration for patient as team members. More research is needed to encompass an increasing development of team assessment tools
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