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- Background and purpose: Working collaboratively as a multidisciplinary team in the treatment and care of cancer patients is proven effective in increasing the quality of patient care. A multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting (MDTM) is the main vehicle that facilitates this collaborative work between different healthcare specialities, and an appropriate meeting record is essential to communicate the meeting's outcomes. There is limited research to date regarding MDTM documentation, and here we report on a sample of healthcare professional's perspectives on current practices. Methodology: A survey, distributed to a purposive snowball sample, is used to collect the perceptions on record-keeping at MDTMs from involved healthcare workers. The survey is descriptive and exploratory in nature and uses closed and open-ended questions offered in both English and Swedish. Results: With a response of 37 healthcare workers, several commonly understood practices of MDTMs are confirmed, documentation is mostly electronic, encompasses suggested information, and the record is mostly acceptable in quality. The issues of responsibility, registering attendance, and verification of documentation can be improved. Conclusion: Electronic documentation is a laudable step that shows advancement in MDTM record-keeping. The highlighted quality of the records suggests that MDTM proceedings are reasonably well documented. There remain some important questions, with regard to standardization, centralization, and the responsibility for record-keeping at MDTMs.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Annan hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Other Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Medicinteknik (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Medical Engineering (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- MDT records
- Meeting records
- Multidisciplinary Team Meetings
- Patient treatment
- Surveys
- Cancer patients
- Healthcare workers
- Meeting record
- Multidisciplinary team meeting
- Multidisciplinary team record
- Multidisciplinary teams
- Patient care
- Record keeping
- Team meetings
- Records management
- centralization
- conference paper
- documentation
- health care personnel
- human
- multidisciplinary team
- perception
- responsibility
- snowball sample
- standardization
- Information Systems
- Informatik
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- art (subject category)
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