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.