Opportunities and barriers to interprofessional communication in the Covid-19 context: scoping review protocol

Abstract

Objective: To map, in the literature, evidence of opportunities and barriers that influence interprofessional communication in the daily lives of Primary Health Care teams and interfere in the production of patient care in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: Scoping review, conducted under the recommendations from the Joanna Briggs Institute and the PRISMA-ScR extension, whose search strategy will take place from the definition of the controlled and corresponding vocabularies in combinations with Boolean operators. Data on the bibliographic characteristics and methodological aspects of the studies will be extracted, in addition to elements, activities, or resources used that provide or restrain interprofessional communication. The mapped evidence will be presented in the form of diagrams, graphs, and narrative synthesis. It is assumed that professionals from different knowledge centers assume the commitment to a lesser or greater degree within the services. Furthermore, interprofessional communication becomes essential for improving care, especially when dealing with pandemic situations.