Process quality of decision-making in multidisciplinary cancer team meetings: A structured observational study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hahlweg, Pola ^a   Didi, Sarah ^a   Kriston, Levente ^a   Härter, Martin ^a   Nestoriuc, Yvonne ^a,b   Scholl, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Schon Klinik Hamburg Eilbek   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Decision making; Multidisciplinary communication; Multidisciplinary team meeting; Observation; Oncology; Tumor board

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM MEETING; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TUMOR BOARD METRIC FOR THE OBSERVATION OF DECISION MAKING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT CARE;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85034103482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3768-5     Document Type: Article

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