Do multidisciplinary cancer care teams suffer decision-making fatigue: an observational, longitudinal team improvement study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to examine effectiveness of codesigned quality-improving interventions with a multidisciplinary team (MDT) with high workload and prolonged meetings to ascertain: (1) presence and impact of decision-making (DM) fatigue on team performance in the weekly MDT meeting and (2) impact of a short meeting break as a countermeasure of DM fatigue.

Design and interventions

This is a longitudinal multiphase study with a codesigned intervention bundle assessed within team audit and feedback cycles. The interventions comprised short meeting breaks, as well as change of room layout and appointing a meeting chair.

Setting and participants

A breast cancer MDT with 15 members was recruited between 2013 and 2015 from a teaching hospital of the L

SUBMITTER: Soukup T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6549703 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature