By incorporating a quality assurance program involving a multi-disciplinary physician group, improvement in the quality of patient care was reported by resolving issues from across the continuum and not simply moving them downstream [ 17].
A multi disciplinary approach involving the physiotherapist, sports physician, radiologist and relevant orthopedic and hernia surgeon is required for non-responsive cases to exclude the various possible etiologies that may contribute to the sportsman's groin.
All sampled VA medical centers in this study have a service line management structure, where multi-disciplinary staff (physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers and clerical staff) report to service line managers in primary care, mental health, or other specialty areas.
The essential elements include: (1) targeted disease syndromes, most often chronic lifestyle related syndromes, (2) organized approach to intervening, multi-disciplinary approach- physician, educator, and pharmacy.
The team also aimed to be reflexive by holding several meetings in which the analysis was discussed amongst the multi-disciplinary team (including physician and nonphysician teachers, a quantitative expert, a sociologist).
The Yale-New Haven Organ Transplant Center (YNHTC) is a multi-disciplinary team of physicians and caregivers, dedicated to the care of patients with end-stage organ failure who might benefit from transplantation.
As more primary care practices involve multi-disciplinary teams, non-physician providers might offer assistance in the recruitment process as the practice facilitators did for the IDOCC project.
CF centers provide multi-disciplinary care teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, and respiratory therapists.
The CMCC is a multi-disciplinary clinic staffed by physicians, bariatric surgeons, dieticians and exercise physiologists.
A multi-disciplinary approach involving respiratory physicians, gastroenterologists and ENT surgeons is required to better define this association and to promulgate consistent guidelines based on the best evidence.
Previous activities included drug utilization reviews, an audit of warfarin prescribing and monitoring practices in our practice area [ 19], multi-disciplinary education and training (physicians, nursing, and pharmacy), and academic detailing by senior consultant pharmacists and a geriatrician.
