The composition of the multidisciplinary team may vary, however and here there is no international consensus.
This is especially relevant as the composition of the multidisciplinary teams varied to some degree with respect to their professional background, reflecting the specific circumstances of the 20 participating hospitals.
We addressed the limitations of previous studies, 18 by defining the composition of a multidisciplinary team at the outset, observing the effect of care where no other model was available, and including a contemporaneous comparison population to adjust for temporal improvements in survival.
The composition of the multidisciplinary care team required to support best-practice care derived by the model is ∼50% clinical diabetes care (medical/nursing, pharmacy, podiatry, and dental), ∼25% to support more healthy lifestyle behaviors (predominantly dietetics and exercise physiology), and 25% to deliver psychosocial care.
We defined the composition and functions of multidisciplinary teams and used the same selection criteria for both areas, thus directly avoiding weaknesses of previous attempts to determine the effects of multidisciplinary care.
The composition of the basic multidisciplinary team typically included at least one geriatrician, nursing staff trained in geriatrics, a social worker, and therapists.
In this chapter, we identify some of the key challenges and issues that a vision of risk engineering brings to current engineering practice; notably, issues of risk composition, the multidisciplinary nature of risk, the design, development, and use of risk metrics, and the need for an extensible risk language.
Like other authors before, we experienced that the multidisciplinary composition of the panel stimulated interaction in the consensus meetings which resulted in a more comprehensive set of indicators [ 29].
Montana J and Borie M (2016) IPBES and biodiversity expertise: Regional, gender, and disciplinary balance in the composition of the interim and 2015 multidisciplinary expert panel.
The composition of these bodies is therefore multidisciplinary in all countries and, in Belgium they include representatives of, for instance, different religious perspectives.
