Finally, even if SpRs prepare and conduct MDMs, multi-disciplinary patient care requires the presence and input of fully trained consultants, which may involve as much of the consultant's time as if they primarily conducted the meeting themselves.
It is a multi-disciplinary, patient-centred approach that employs an evidenced-based pathway of standardised care.
In the age of comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, patient-centered care, however, identifying such issues can improve the efficacy of clinical care [ 39].
However, the evidence for transitional care programs that enhance the home medical care model and provide multi-disciplinary patient-centered care is not well established.
There are some transitional care programs that enhance the home medical care model and provide multi-disciplinary patient-centered care to patients discharged from hospital to home.
A distinctive element of the SRIP was its stated aim and consequent adherence to a 'user-centred' [ 15] approach which led to the constitution, very early on, of a multi-disciplinary, patient-involved action learning group called the 'SRIP Action Learning Group ALGLG) [ 16].
Typically one multi disciplinary intervention for patients on sick leave due to muscular pain reported significant effects on physical and psychological health, but found no significant differences on the return to work rate [ 24].
Secondly, neither patients nor GP's were involved in this study, while medication reconciliation is a multi disciplinary process.
The move towards a multi-disciplinary model of patient care, which is best-developed in, but not exclusive to cancer care, has rightly brought radiologists to a central role in medical and surgical teams.
They were seen to foster a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to patient care.
Changes in the treatment approach away from primary surgical intervention have required a shift to a multi-disciplinary model of patient management [ 1].
