Knotworking refers to co-located 'knots' that are organized on a temporary basis to solve a specific task, a problem or an open question requiring multi-disciplinary expertise in a building project.
The project benefited from multi-disciplinary expertise provided by a consortium of 17 partners from 12 countries (i.e. railway undertakings (RUs), infrastructure managers (IMs), research centres, universities, and manufacturers from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom).
The team should encompass multi-disciplinary expertise and should include proteomic researchers, bio-engineers, clinical chemists, protein chemists, experts in biostatistics and bioinformatics, clinical investigators, and epidemiologists.
Further strengths, as identified previously, are the speed and consistency with which the process can be conducted and, unlike other more interpretive methods, such as meta-ethnography [ 9], the pragmatic requirement for a systematic review team to be technically competent but not necessarily to contain multi-disciplinary expertise.
The limitations of this study are considered to be the small sample size and using a purposive sample, although multi-disciplinary participant expertise and experience with the local health system is advantageous, and thematic saturation was achieved.
And it requires working across disciplinary boundaries, often difficult given academia's focus on disciplinary expertise.
JC and CMB are multi-disciplinary scholars with expertise in social-ecological systems and ecosystem services.
In order to address this gap in the literature, we formed a multi-disciplinary group with expertise in paediatric mucositis.
Additionally, the instrument's content and utility was evaluated by an independent multi-disciplinary panel with expertise in gerontology, epidemiology, biostatistics and health services research and a plain language expert was commissioned to revise the instrument for clarity and readability.
The use of a multi-disciplinary team (with expertise in both public health and anthropology) in the review, and the synthesis of data, enriched the synthesis as it provided us with an opportunity to draw and collate team members' interpretations of the findings.
Rapid access to a specialist service can reduce the risk of death and disability following stroke as early assessment enables accurate diagnosis, provision of acute treatment, early detection and response to complications, and provision of care by a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in stroke[ 3, 4].
