Strategies to improve the efficiency and utility of multidisciplinary team meetings in urology cancer care: A survey study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lamb, Benjamin W ^a,b   Jalil, Rozh T ^a,b   Sevdalis, Nick ^a   Vincent, Charles ^b   Green, James S A ^c,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Efficacy; Efficiency; Multidisciplinary; Team; Urology

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84907976553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-377     Document Type: Article

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