Multidisciplinary care is considered the standard of care for both adult and pediatric neuromuscular disorders and has been associated with improved quality of life, resource utilization, and health outcomes. Multidisciplinary care is delivered in multidisciplinary clinics that coordinate care across multiple specialties by reducing travel burden and streamlining care. In addition, the multidis...

Multidisciplinary approach is recommended for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, in order to optimize quality of life and survival. Multidisciplinary cancer teams that are used for this purpose enable communication between professionals. Multidisciplinary cancer meetings are pre-programmed regular meetings where cancer patients are evaluated on an individual basis, and where the multidiscip...

there is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. and while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. we outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics...

this paper presents an efficient global meta-model building technique for solving high fidelity multidisciplinary design optimization (mdo) problems. the main difficulties associated with mdo are often characterized by interdisciplinary couplings, high computational cost of an analysis in individual disciplines and a large number of design variables and constraints. these issues result in very ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation on clinically relevant outcomes in patients with chronic low back pain. DESIGN Systematic literature review of randomised controlled trials. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1964 patients with disabling low back pain for more than three months. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Pain, function, employment, quality of life, and g...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive geriatric assessment and multidisciplinary intervention are of proven benefit in the care of older people. OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients' multidisciplinary needs in hospital can be met by current service provision. DESIGN A comprehensive census assessing the multidisciplinary needs of an entire inpatient population compared to available multidisciplinary t...

The rarity of bone and soft tissue sarcoma, the difficulty in interpretation of imaging and histology, the plethora of treatment modalities, and the complexity and intensity of the treatment contribute to the need for systematic multidisciplinary team management of patients with these diseases. An integrated multidisciplinary clinic and team with a structured sarcoma tumor board facilitate team...