| Author/year/country | Objectives | Design/sample size/tools | Concepts |
| Hee lim/2008/South Korea | Model and hypothesis tests | Qualitative/questioner | The concepts were collaboration, affecting factors and the degree of collaboration |
| Gotlib Conn & et al./ 2014/Canada | Perception of physician-nurse collaboration | Mixed/interview | Communication, isolation, matching doing, supporting the management were of concepts |
| Lingard & et al./ 2004/Canada | Discovering of how teamwork interact and discuss about complex objects in ICU | Focus group/37 person | Specialized knowledge, technical skills, equipment, clinical domain were of important concepts |
| Ellingson/2003/USA | Evaluation of teamwork and understanding how the team work through communication | Ethnography/8/ field note/observation | Clinical development, creating relationship, space and resources, training of students, and management of spaces were some of the concepts |
| Sevensson/1996/Sweden | Development of some central themes of the relationship between doctors and nurses in hospital’s environment | Interview/59 person | The main concepts were social change, coordination, face to face communication, the rules and norms |
| Apker & et al./2006/USA | Discovering the professional association of nurses in dealing with health care teams | Content analysis/50/ interview | The main concepts were collaboration, authenticity, compassion, coordination |
| Jones/2006/UK | Identifying of multidisciplinary teamwork problems and creating a care pathway for patients with schizophrenia | Observation/29/interview | Some concepts were improving care, reducing length of stay, specific interventions, treatment efficacy |
| Douglas & Machin/2004/UK | Providing a model for interdisciplinary collaboration | Grounded theory/20/ interview | The concepts of this model include power, background, group life, the barriers and support |
| Nugus & et al./ 2010/Australia | Determine how to apply the power of clinical clinicians | Focus group /interview/observation/63 person | Main concepts were working together, domain, power of collaboration, the same mutual feeling |
| Manley/1997/UK | Providing clinical and counseling model for nurses | Action research/focus group/interview/field note | Trainer, skilled practitioner, researcher director of progress, consulter, colleague |
| Halvorsen & et al./ 2010/Norway | Explaining the experience of doctors and nurses of working with pharmacists | Interview/12 | Development of collaboration, different characteristics, different expectations, changes in interactions, time compression were discussed concepts |
| Petri/2010/USA | Analysis of concept based on Rogers’ approach | Concept analysis | The concept in this analysis was in the definition of interdisciplinary collaboration |
| Gaboury & et al./ 2010/Canada | Assessment of validity of care centered framework | Mixed/qualitative 21/ quantitative 87 | The models of collaboration, consultation, coordination, parallel, interdisciplinary, integration were mentioned |
| Wahlin & et al./ 2010/Sweden | Describing the authority from the viewpoints of the staff of the intensive care | Phenomenology/20/ interview | Some of the concepts were self-confidence, knowledge and skills, team work, the feeling of performing good work |
| Gaboury & et al./ 2009/Canada | Discovery and explanation of the health care experiences and facilitating and limiting factors of collaboration | Grounded theory/ 21/interview | Data, processes and outputs were the studied concepts |