What Makes a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), and How Do MDTs Work?
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چکیده
We report on a comparison study of multidisciplinary team constitution and practices in three hospitals: one in each of three jurisdictions. Similarities and differences in day-to-day practices exist and we identify how technology can be employed to improve the person-to-person interaction, collaboration and the use of information, particularly image data. We identify support for MDT work is part of infrastructure, and we further identify the need for a framework for evaluation of this infrastructure that will take account of patient benefits from improved technologies being applied in the work setting.
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