Shifting sands: Adapting the multidisciplinary team model to technological and organizational innovations in cancer care

Future Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1995-1998

  Prades, Joan ^a   Borras, Josep M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer care; Multidisciplinary; Networks

Indexed keywords

CANCER CENTER; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CREATIVITY; EDITORIAL; EUROPEAN; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MANAGER; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SCOPE OF PRACTICE; SOCIAL MEDIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEOCONFERENCING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INVENTION; ONCOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; TRENDS;

HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INVENTIONS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM;

EID: 84911072082     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/FON.14.125     Document Type: Editorial

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