Open AccessRefocusing cancer multidisciplinary team meetings in the United Kingdom: comparing urology with other specialties
Author(s) -
Ross Warner,
Linda Hoinville,
E. Pottle,
Cath Taylor,
Jsa Green
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2020.0212
Subject(s) - multidisciplinary approach , medicine , multidisciplinary team , cancer , urology , family medicine , medical education , nursing , political science , law
Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings have been the gold standard of cancer care in the UK since the 1990s. We aimed to identify the views of urology cancer MDT members in the UK on improving the functioning of meetings and compare them with those of other specialties to manage the increasing demand on healthcare resources and enhance the care of complex cancer cases.