Function, information, and contributions: An evaluation of national multidisciplinary team meetings for rare cancers.

ABSTRACT: National virtual multidisciplinary team meetings have been established in Swedish cancer care in response to centralized treatment of rare cancers. Though national meetings grant access to a large multidisciplinary network, we hypothesized that video-based meetings may challenge participants' contributions to the case discussions. We investigated participants' views and used observational tools to assess contributions from various health professionals during the multidisciplinary team meetings. Data on participants' views were collected using an electronic survey distributed to participants in six national multidisciplinary team meetings for rare cancers. Data from observations were obtained from the multidisciplinary team meetings for penile cancer, anal cancer, and vulvar cancer using th

SUBMITTER: Rosell L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506921 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature