Improving decision making in multidisciplinary tumor boards: Prospective longitudinal evaluation of a multicomponent intervention for 1,421 patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 412-420

  Lamb, Benjamin W ^a,b   Green, James S A ^b   Benn, Jonathan ^a   Brown, Katrina F ^a   Vincent, Charles A ^a   Sevdalis, Nick ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metric of Decision Making; MODe; MTB; multidisciplinary tumor board; quality improvement checklist; QuIC; Whipps Cross University Hospital; WXUH

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TUMOR BOARD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; TEAMWORK; TRAINING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

METRIC OF DECISION MAKING; MODE; MTB; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TUMOR BOARD; QUALITY-IMPROVEMENT CHECKLIST; QUIC; WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WXUH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHECKLIST; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84882831105     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2013.04.035     Document Type: Article

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