Quality of teamwork in multidisciplinary cancer team meetings: A feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tumor boards (TB) play an important role to formulate a management plan for the treatment of patients with a malignancy. Recent evidence suggests that optimally functioning teams (teamwork, communication and decision making) are major prerequisites to conduct efficient TB meetings. The aims of this study were i) to use a readily published tool as a template for the development of a teamwork perspective extended assessment tool and ii) to evaluate the tool in a feasibility study by clinical and non-clinical observers.

Methods

A systematic literature search in four databases revealed the "Metric for the Observation of Decision-making (MODe)" to be consistently used. MODe served as a template for the clinical evaluation, additional, notably teamwork items were integr

SUBMITTER: Lumenta DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377131 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature