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Ineffective physician–nurse collaboration has been shown to cause work dissatisfaction among physicians and nurses and compromised the quality of patient care.

The review sought to explore: (1) attitudes of physicians and nurses toward physician–nurse collaboration; (2) factors affecting physician–nurse collaboration; and (3) strategies to improve physician–nurse collaboration.

A literature search was conducted in the following databases: CINAHL, PubMed, Wiley Online Library and Scopus from year 2002 to 2012, to include papers that reported studies on physician–nurse collaboration in the hospital setting.

Seventeen papers were included in this review. Three of the reviewed articles were qualitative studies and the other 14 were quantitative studies. Three key themes emerged from this review: (1) attitudes towards physician–nurse collaboration, where physicians …