Around 175 participants gathered in France's Loire Valley for this unashamedly multi disciplinary meeting.
My case was discussed at multi-disciplinary meetings and I sometimes wondered if the colleagues I walked past knew about my diagnosis or the results of my surgery before I did.
Thursdays are always just NHS work while the rest of the week is taken up with a mixture of private and NHS appointments, going to multi-disciplinary meetings and discussing individual patients for more precise medical recommendations.
Radiologist time engaged in activities not easily counted (interventional and procedural work, multi-disciplinary meetings, teaching, administration, etc).
▪ Consultation and discussion with other clinicians, through one-to-one consultations, multi-disciplinary meetings or other means of communication.
Multi-disciplinary meetings using MRI have led to improved possibilities of selecting the most appropriate treatment for patients with rectal cancer [7, 8, 9, 10].
Several researchers have also worked on fully automated systems and web-based visualization techniques to facilitate quick feedback and information dissemination during multi-disciplinary meetings with participants from disparate locations (Lemke et al. 2011).
A teaching hospital department, with many multi-disciplinary meetings per week, and a high complexity of work, cannot be expected to report as many studies per individual as a department which has fewer such commitments and less complexity of work.
Treatment decisions were made in weekly multi-disciplinary meetings and recorded prospectively.
We found it essential to centrally locate these multi-disciplinary meetings in the ICU itself rather than at a variety of distant locations.
Data collection included observations of patients' expressions of PNs and nurses' responses to those expressed PNs, shift hand-overs and multi-disciplinary meetings.
