Case review in urology multidisciplinary team meetings: What members think of its functioning

Journal of Clinical Urology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 394-402

  Sarkar, Somita ^a   Arora, Sonal ^a   Lamb, Benjamin W ^a,b   Green, James S A ^b,c   Sevdalis, Nick ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer conference; decision making; Multidisciplinary; team; tumour board; urology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM; ONCOLOGIST; PATHOLOGIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; UROLOGIST; WORK;

EID: 84912100885     PISSN: 20514158     EISSN: 20514166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2051415814532459     Document Type: Article

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