A multicentre cross-sectional observational study of cancer multidisciplinary teams: Analysis of team decision making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multidisciplinary teams (MDT) formulate expert informed treatment recommendations for people with cancer. We set out to examine how the factors proposed by the functional perspective of group decision making (DM), that is, interaction process, internal factors (factors emanating from within the group such as group size), external circumstances (factors coming from the outside of the team), and case-complexity affect the quality of MDT decision making.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional observational study. Three cancer MDTs were recruited with 44 members overall and 30 of their weekly meetings filmed. Validated observational instruments were used to measure quality of DM, interactions, and complexity of 822 case discussions.

Results

The full regression mode

SUBMITTER: Soukup T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7541152 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature