Due to resource constraints, we did not review videos with expert surgeons from different specialties.
The expert panel was comprised of six physicians from different specialties, including two endocrinologists, one nephrologist, one cardiologist, one internist, and one intensivist.
For specialty clinics, we focused on including physicians from clinics of differences sized rather than from different specialties.
The consensus methods used allow opinion of a relatively small number of experts although we addressed this through recruitment of representatives from different specialties and different hospitals across the UK.
The expert raters assessed the teams' performance as either advanced novice or competent, with significant differences being found between the teams from different specialties.
Interestingly enough, there is also a difference in how patients react to doctors from different specialties.
In conclusion, treatment preferences differ between individual patients, individual oncologists, and oncologists from different specialties treating the same patient.
A hybrid procedure is the use of procedural techniques from different specialties to accomplish a shared procedural goal.
Watson wants to staff each office with engineers from different specialties so it can handle several kinds of jobs.
