Interprofessional Collaboration To Improve Professional Practice and Healthcare Outcomes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Reeves, S., Pelone, F., et al. (2017).

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 6(6), CD000072.

This systematic review investigates the effects of interprofessional collaboration, including speech-language pathologists, on patient health outcomes, clinical process or efficiency outcomes, or collaborative behavior outcomes.

The Cochrane Collaboration; University of London (United Kingdom); University of Toronto (Canada); Canadian Institutes of Health Research

2017 to 2015

Individual or cluster-randomized studies

9

Two of the nine included studies explicitly focused on interprofessional collaboration (IPC) that included speech-language pathologists. The two studies were reported to investigate externally facilitated interventions and interprofessional meetings, respectively. Externally facilitated interventions to improve IPC was suggested to positively impact patient health outcomes such as functional status; however, effects on quality of life was uncertain and impact on patient morbidity/complications was not reported. The impact of interprofessional meetings on patient health outcomes was not reported.