PubMed:
Provider: NLM
Database: PubMed (National Library of Medicine), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Date(s) Searched: October 28, 2026 to October 29, 2026
Language: English
Publication types excluded: Comment, Editorial, Letter, Case Reports, Preprint
Final count: 10,270 (line 11)
Search Terms:

No. | Query | Results
1 | "Patient Care Team"[Mesh] OR "Interdisciplinary Communication"[Mesh] | 91,955
2 | multidisciplinary[ti] OR interdisciplinary[ti] OR "multi-disciplinary"[ti] OR multispecialty[ti] | 38,963
3 | "heart team"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary team"[tiab:~2] OR "interdisciplinary team"[tiab:~2] OR "interprofessional team"[tiab:~2] OR "multispecialty team"[tiab:~2] OR "multi-disciplinary team"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary approach"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary meeting*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary discussion*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary conference*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary decision*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary evaluation*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary assessment*"[tiab] OR "case conference*"[tiab] OR "team approach"[tiab] OR "team-based"[tiab] OR "team decision*"[tiab] OR "valve team"[tiab] OR "endocarditis team"[tiab] OR "shock team"[tiab] OR MDT[tiab] | 105,103
4 | 1 OR 2 OR 3 | 202,829
5 | "Heart Diseases"[Mesh] OR "Cardiology"[Mesh] OR "Cardiac Surgical Procedures"[Mesh] OR "Thoracic Surgery"[Mesh] OR "Myocardial Revascularization"[Mesh] OR "Coronary Artery Bypass"[Mesh] OR "Percutaneous Coronary Intervention"[Mesh] OR "Coronary Artery Disease"[Mesh] OR "Heart Valve Diseases"[Mesh] OR "Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement"[Mesh] OR "Aortic Valve"[Mesh] OR "Mitral Valve"[Mesh] OR "Tricuspid Valve"[Mesh] | 1,511,791
6 | cardiac[tiab] OR cardiolog*[tiab] OR cardiothoracic[tiab] OR "cardiovascular surgery"[tiab] OR "heart surgery"[tiab] OR coronary[tiab] OR "myocardial revasculari*"[tiab] OR CABG[tiab] OR mitral[tiab] OR tricuspid[tiab] OR "aortic valve"[tiab] OR "aortic stenosis"[tiab] OR "aortic regurgitation"[tiab] OR valvular[tiab] OR "heart valve*"[tiab] OR TAVI[tiab] OR TAVR[tiab] OR "transcatheter aortic"[tiab] OR "transcatheter mitral"[tiab] OR "transcatheter tricuspid"[tiab] OR "edge-to-edge"[tiab] OR MitraClip[tiab] OR endocarditis[tiab] OR "cardiogenic shock"[tiab] | 1,462,483
7 | 5 OR 6 | 2,121,921
8 | 4 AND 7 | 15,663
9 | "Comment"[Publication Type] OR "Editorial"[Publication Type] OR "Letter"[Publication Type] OR "Case Reports"[Publication Type] OR "Preprint"[Publication Type] | 4,884,955
10 | 8 NOT 9 | 11,529
11 | 10 AND english[la] | 10,270

Final query as run through NCBI E-utilities (line 11):
(((("Patient Care Team"[Mesh] OR "Interdisciplinary Communication"[Mesh]) OR (multidisciplinary[ti] OR interdisciplinary[ti] OR "multi-disciplinary"[ti] OR multispecialty[ti]) OR ("heart team"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary team"[tiab:~2] OR "interdisciplinary team"[tiab:~2] OR "interprofessional team"[tiab:~2] OR "multispecialty team"[tiab:~2] OR "multi-disciplinary team"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary approach"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary meeting*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary discussion*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary conference*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary decision*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary evaluation*"[tiab] OR "multidisciplinary assessment*"[tiab] OR "case conference*"[tiab] OR "team approach"[tiab] OR "team-based"[tiab] OR "team decision*"[tiab] OR "valve team"[tiab] OR "endocarditis team"[tiab] OR "shock team"[tiab] OR MDT[tiab])) AND (("Heart Diseases"[Mesh] OR "Cardiology"[Mesh] OR "Cardiac Surgical Procedures"[Mesh] OR "Thoracic Surgery"[Mesh] OR "Myocardial Revascularization"[Mesh] OR "Coronary Artery Bypass"[Mesh] OR "Percutaneous Coronary Intervention"[Mesh] OR "Coronary Artery Disease"[Mesh] OR "Heart Valve Diseases"[Mesh] OR "Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement"[Mesh] OR "Aortic Valve"[Mesh] OR "Mitral Valve"[Mesh] OR "Tricuspid Valve"[Mesh]) OR (cardiac[tiab] OR cardiolog*[tiab] OR cardiothoracic[tiab] OR "cardiovascular surgery"[tiab] OR "heart surgery"[tiab] OR coronary[tiab] OR "myocardial revasculari*"[tiab] OR CABG[tiab] OR mitral[tiab] OR tricuspid[tiab] OR "aortic valve"[tiab] OR "aortic stenosis"[tiab] OR "aortic regurgitation"[tiab] OR valvular[tiab] OR "heart valve*"[tiab] OR TAVI[tiab] OR TAVR[tiab] OR "transcatheter aortic"[tiab] OR "transcatheter mitral"[tiab] OR "transcatheter tricuspid"[tiab] OR "edge-to-edge"[tiab] OR MitraClip[tiab] OR endocarditis[tiab] OR "cardiogenic shock"[tiab]))) NOT ("Comment"[Publication Type] OR "Editorial"[Publication Type] OR "Letter"[Publication Type] OR "Case Reports"[Publication Type] OR "Preprint"[Publication Type])) AND english[la]

AI-use statement:
The PubMed search strategy was drafted with the PICO search builder. It used the large language model claude-opus-5-5 (Anthropic; accessed October 29, 2026) to propose search concepts and terms from the review question. The tool made 1 call to the model at high effort (the draft); claude-opus-5-5 was requested and answered it. A refusal fallback was enabled (had the model declined a request, the API could have run it again on another model Anthropic recommends); it was not used. Every MeSH heading, Supplementary Concept and publication type the strategy searches was checked against NLM MeSH (id.nlm.nih.gov) before use: 20 valid. Each numbered line was run in PubMed through NCBI E-utilities between October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026, and PubMed's own diagnostics (phrases not found, ignored words, lost truncation) were checked. A searcher must review the strategy before it is used. The prompts, the model output and every version are in the provenance file (JSON export).

Review question: Research Question 1 – Structured multidisciplinary Heart Team evaluation vs single-clinician/unstructured evaluation
No direct evidence. Existing recent systematic review up to date as of July 2023. “PICO 1 seems like it’s unnecessary to relitigate and I will try to get them to reconsider that one”. No demo search generated.
Search strategy: (Multidisciplinary team or Interdisciplinary Team) and [cardiac or cardiology or cardiac surgery or cardiothoracic surgery or coronary revascularization or mitral valve or aortic valve or tricuspid valve or coronary artery disease or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)]
Run d33e6a1e-5086-4209-b660-574c1526610b, exported October 29, 2026 from the PICO search builder.