%0 Journal Article
%@ 1471-2407
%A Taylor, C
%A Atkins, L
%A Richardson, A
%A Tarrant, R
%A Ramirez, AJ
%D 2012
%F discovery:1373061
%J BMC Cancer
%K Humans, Medical Oncology, Neoplasms, Patient Care Team, Physician's Practice Patterns, Quality Assurance, Health Care
%P ?- ?
%T Measuring the quality of MDT working: an observational approach
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1373061/
%V 12
%X Cancer multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are established in many countries but little is known about how well they function. A core activity is regular MDT meetings (MDMs) where treatment recommendations are agreed. A mixed methods descriptive study was conducted to develop and test quality criteria for observational assessment of MDM performance calibrated against consensus from over 2000 MDT members about the "characteristics of an effective MDT".
%Z PMCID: PMC3489862      © 2012 Taylor et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.    This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.