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Physicians’ attitudes and perspectives regarding the uptake of psychosocial aspects and/or patient preferences during multidisciplinary team meetings in oncology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Introduction: Coordinating cancer care is challenging because of its complexity. To partly encounter this complexity,multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) were implemented to evaluate diagnosis, discuss treatment options and collectively decide upon the most optimal patient care and treatment plan. In cancer trajectories, medical professionals have a coordinating role and final decision responsibility. As a consequence patient-centred ...
Input of psychosocial information during multidisciplinary team meetings at medical oncology departments : protocol for an observational study Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Experiences of hospital-based multidisciplinary team meetings in oncology : an interview study among participating general practitioners Ghent University
Exploring non-physician care professionals' roles in cancer multidisciplinary team meetings: A qualitative study. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
The growing complexity of cancer care necessitates collaboration among different professionals. This interprofessional collaboration improves cancer care delivery and outcomes. Treatment decision-making within the context of a multidisciplinaire team meeting (MDTMs) may be seen as a particular form of interprofessional collaboration. Various studies on cancer MDTMs highlight a pattern of suboptimal information sharing between attendants. To ...
Multidisciplinary Team Meetings about a Patient in Primary Care: an explorative study KU Leuven
Introduction Multidisciplinary team meetings about a patient are a way to coordinate fragmented care. The Minimal Data Set/Resident Assessment Instrument (MDS/RAI) is a tool to prepare and support these meetings. Methods An exploratory qualitative study was used to examine the factors that influence the need for a multidisciplinary meeting and to determine the value of MDS/RAI supporting the multidisciplinary meeting. Results Key elements ...
The Speaker’s Staff: Supporting Remote Multidisciplinary Team Meetings in Hospitals KU Leuven
In this paper we present the ongoing work on the Speaker’s Staff, a concept for a tangible user interface to support remote multidisciplinary team meetings in hospitals. We describe the design process of the Speaker’s Staff and our research-through-design approach, inspired by critical design, to overcome contextual barriers. By introducing the Speaker’s Staff: we don’t require tight integration with hospital informatics, we maximize flexibility ...
[Better multidisciplinary team meetings are linked to better care]. KU Leuven
Discussing a patient in an oncology multidisciplinary team meeting (MTM) increases the value of the quality of the treatment chosen. MTMs are increasingly mentioned in guidelines and indicator sets. Based on literature review and observations, the Comprehensive Cancer Centre Netherlands (CCCNL), in collaboration with IQ Healthcare and the Department of Medical Oncology of the UMC St Radboud Nijmegen in the Netherlands, has conducted research ...