The Guideline for Team Communication, approved by the AORN Guidelines Advisory Board, provides guidance and recommendations for improving preoperative team communication through a culture of safety that incorporates team and simulation training, standardized transfer of patient information, briefings and debriefings, time outs, and surgical safety checklists. The guidelines and recommendations are based off a systematic evidence review of literature publications related to preoperative communication, from 2011 to 2017, in Ovid MEDLINE, EBSCO CINAHL, Scopus, and Cochrane Databases.