Video conferencing is used to link staff and patients remotely, and has been of particular use in connecting consultants working in multidisciplinary teams, such as cancer networks or stroke clinics.
Future studies should examine interventions that standardize the consent process and examine the incremental benefits of additional education materials, videos, decision aids, formal shared medical decision making tools, or multidisciplinary teams, such as Heart teams, to improve knowledge transfer.
8 11 Convenience, continuity of care, and proximity of services to home are considered advantages of community NLC. 12 However, patients with RA need ready access to other members of the multidisciplinary team such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
The first involved patients being enrolled for resistance testing by the medical officer during routine clinic visits, with referral to members of the multidisciplinary team such as the social worker, the psychologist or the dietician as appropriate, on a case-by-case basis.
The key players include the physician, other members of the multidisciplinary team (such as nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, chaplains, physiotherapists, respiratory therapists, and dieticians, who can be involved in both the inpatient and outpatient settings) and the key surrogates, as ideally identified by the patient.
Multidisciplinary teams work on such complex problems.
For complex treatments that require extensive multidisciplinary and designated teams (such as certain types of craniofacial and epilepsy surgery) or special and expensive equipment (such as a stereotactic radiosurgery), the benefits of centralization are much easier to perceive.
Some sessions included material taught by other members of the multidisciplinary NICU team, such as a pharmacist, dietician, or lactation consultant.
The competence-building will involve all the members of the multidisciplinary reablement team, such as nurses, auxiliary nurses, social educators, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, home-helpers and assistants.
One strategy involves seeking a second opinion from members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, such as nurses, social workers, and chaplains, to try to move back to the process of trying to build some Common Ground.
Paediatric and psychiatric nurses are usually members of such multidisciplinary teams.
