Teamwork and team decision-making at multidisciplinary cancer conferences: Barriers, facilitators, and opportunities for improvement

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1970-1976

  Lamb, Benjamin W ^a,b   Sevdalis, Nick ^a   Arora, Sonal ^a   Pinto, Anna ^a   Vincent, Charles ^a   Green, James S A ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 80052260240     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-1152-1     Document Type: Article

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