Search Strategy and Data Sources:
Following the development of the review focus, keywords were selected that were determined pertinent to the topic. Five electronic databases (PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PsycINFO, EMBASE, and Cochrane) were used as sources of relevant literature. These searches were conducted for articles published from January 6, 2000, to January 6, 2020 (searches were carried out on 6-8th January 2020).
Keywords and terms used in searching included ‘huddle’, ‘team brief’, ‘preoperative brief’, ‘brief’, ‘multidisciplinary healthcare team’, ‘MDT’, ‘team’, ‘work engagement’, ‘job satisfaction’, ‘turnover intention’, ‘satisfaction’, and ‘teamwork’. Previous publications on team-based interventions helped to inform the search strategy.7,29,30 Groups of keywords relevant to a specific category (e.g. Huddle) type were combined using the ‘OR’ Boolean term (e.g. ‘huddle’ OR ‘brief’ OR ‘preoperative brief’) and categories of keywords were combined using the ‘AND’ Boolean operand. Researchers also scanned the reference lists of included papers and of previously published systematic reviews. Copies of all database search strings can be obtained by contacting the corresponding author.