Following the establishment of a discharge working group, several concerns were raised about the management of multidisciplinary team (MDT) discharge meetings throughout the trust. A project was established to observe MDT meetings, identify good practice and produce practice guidance to improve standards and achieve consistency throughout the organisation.

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 pa...

The relationship between stressful life events and adolescent suicide was assessed in 67 adolescent suicide victims and 67 matched community controls. In the year before death, suicide completers were more likely to have experienced: (1) interpersonal conflict with parents and with boy/girlfriends, (2) disruption of a romantic attachment, (3) legal or disciplinary problems. Legal or disciplinar...

the study describes and evaluates inter-organizational communication and relationships involving rural development management of community lands within specific perimetros florestais in portugal. the research design is an exploratory research study approach that collected information with a mail questionnaire, interviews and information gleaned from community land association meetings and an in...

The study describes and evaluates inter-organizational communication and relationships involving rural development management of community lands within specific perimetros florestais in Portugal. The research design is an exploratory research study approach that collected information with a mail questionnaire, interviews and information gleaned from community land association meetings and an in...

Abstract Background and Aims The Walsall Together clinical operational leads constructed a collaborative initiative between nephrology community services. Driven to provide multi-agency, patient-focused care. aim of the MDT service is identify optimally manage individuals with acute nephrological presentations secondary complications chronic kidney disease (CKD) at home, while maximally utilisi...

Discrimination data analysis has been investigated for the last fifty years in a large body of social, legal, and economic studies. Recently, discrimination discovery and prevention has become a blooming research topic in the knowledge discovery community. This chapter provides a multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography of the literature on discrimination data analysis, with the intended objec...