Contested professional role boundaries in health care: a systematic review of the literature

Table 1 STARLITE framework

Sampling strategy	Purposive
Type of literature	Qualitative and quantitative research
Approaches	Subject search, citation search, internet search
Range of years	No start date to March 2014
Limits	English, human
Inclusions and exclusions	Included: Health or health care and: contested role boundaries, disputed role boundaries, role boundary negotiation, interprofessional role boundaries, professional role boundaries
Inclusions and exclusions	Excluded: Discussion pieces; developing countries; intra-professional boundary disputes; papers referring to, but not focusing on interprofessional boundary disputes; complementary and alternative therapies only; interprofessional education; collaboration; multidisciplinary care
Terms used	Contested boundaries AND health care
	Dispute* boundary$ AND health care
	Professional boundary$ AND health care
	Interprofessional boundary$ AND in health
Electronic resources	CINAHL, Medline, PubMed, Expanded Academic ASAP

The symbols * and $ constitute literature search strategy Boolean connectors. * is a wildcard symbol replacing one letter in a search term, enhancing a database search. $ is a truncation symbol which allows retrieval of words in both plural and singular.

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