Interventions to enhance teamwork in healthcare professionals: a mini review Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Introduction Healthcare is a complex occupation that one professional can’t be held liable for it, but by a multidisciplinary team where each is responsible of carrying-out certain tasks depending on their profession, but they all have the common goal of improving the patients’ wellbeing. 1 Research has shown that patients’ perception of the care they received is considerably increased when members of the healthcare team work together. 1,2 Furthermore, interpersonal and communication skills in a team helps improve the job satisfaction among workers. 2 Teamwork has been defned as “a positive work relationship among nurses or other personnel, but also as inter- professional relations, peer cohesion, social support, collaborative decision-making, and the amount of clinical support”. 3 Researchers have found that teamwork and collaboration can help improve care processes while reducing the number of medical errors and increasing patient safety. 4,5 Discussion Eligibility criteria A review was conducted among the scientifc literature related to the interventions to enhance teamwork in healthcare professionals. The main question for this integrated review was “Which are the interventions most used to enhance teamwork among healthcare professionals”. To search and choose the studies, fve databases were consulted: DynaMed, EBSCO HOST, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Nature-International weekly journal of science and Wolters Kluwer Health, with the keywords from Medical Subject Heading (MESH) 6 “Healthcare personnel”, “Healthcare teams” and “Intervention study”, conducted between June and July 2017. Studies published in English and Spanish were included with abstracts and texts in full-length accessible. Selection of studies All studies discussing interventions to enhance teamwork in nursing professionals were included, regardless of the type of study. Process for data collection Firstly, members of the research team reviewed, analyzed and summarized the data from the studies individually, afterwards, the data was reviewed by another researcher of the team. Characteristics of selected studies The investigations contemplated, were the studies to enhance teamwork in healthcare professional published in the languages mentioned above. Conclusion After the literature search, eight studies were identifed and analyzed in full, four articles were selected, they are described in Table 1. The Level of Evidence was considered according to the “Evidence- based nursing care guidelines: Medical-surgical interventions”. 7 Healthcare is a multifaceted entity that requires a group of multiple, talented experts, like nurses, physicians and psychologists to provide high-quality care. It has been shown that teamwork training is essential in order to provide high-quality and cost-effective care. The authors of this integrative review, conclude that teamwork can be enhanced when components such as interpersonal and communication skills are developed, while improving team behaviors that will help lower errors in the clinical setting. Nurse Care Open Acces J. 2018;5(2):84–85. Volume 5 Issue 2 - 2018 Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, María del Carmen Santes-Bastian, Erika Mayte Del Ángel-Salazar, Nazaria Martínez-Díaz, David Hernández-Zepeta, Mireya Cruz-Ruiz Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico Correspondence: Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, Tel (782) 8282024, Email hifernandez@uv.mx Received: February 16, 2018 | Published: March 28, 2018 Abstract Introduction: Research has shown that patients’ perception of the care they received is considerably increased when members of the healthcare team work together. Aim: Which are the interventions most used to enhance teamwork among healthcare professionals? Discussion: A literature search was conducted in databases such as; DynaMed, EBSCO HOST, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Nature- International weekly journal of science and Wolters Kluwer Health, with the keywords from Medical Subject Heading (MESH) “Healthcare personnel”, “Healthcare teams” and “Intervention study”. Conclusion: It is concluded that teamwork training is essential in order to provide high-quality and cost-effective care. Keywords: intervention study, healthcare team, review © 2018 Fernández-Sánchez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially. 84 Nursing & Care Open Access Journal Mini Review Open Access