Case review and discussion at multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) have evolved into standard practice in cancer care with the aim to provide evidence-based treatment recommendations. As a basis for work optimize MDTMs, we investigated participants' views on meeting function, including perceived benefits barriers. In cross-sectional study design, 244 health professionals from south Sweden rated MDTM structure these barriers reach recommendation. The top-ranked advantages MDTMs were...

National virtual multidisciplinary team meetings have been established in Swedish cancer care response to centralized treatment of rare cancers. Though national grant access a large network, we hypothesized that video-based may challenge participants' contributions the case discussions. We investigated views and used observational tools assess from various health professionals during meetings. Data on were collected using an electronic survey distributed participants six for observations...

Abstract Background Individualized cancer rehabilitation should be an integral part of care. Contact nurses play a key role in identifying patient needs and coordinating evidence-based interventions to support rehabilitation. However, remains marginal current practice, as contact face challenges due the lack systematic processes for assessment, intervention, follow-up, limiting its implementation across care trajectory. This study aims explore views on their prerequisites Methods Data were...

Background: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) have developed into standard of care to provide expert opinion and grant evidence-based recommendations on diagnostics treatment cancer. Though MDTMs are associated with a range benefits, growing number cases, complex case discussion an increasing participants raise questions cost versus benefit. We aimed determine define determinants hereof based observations in Swedish cancer care.Methods: Data were collected through 50 from questionnaire...

Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are an integral component of cancer care. Increasingly, virtual MDTMs used to grant high-quality treatment recommendations across health-care regions, which expands and develops the local MDTM a regional or national expert network. We investigated health professionals' experiences from national, for rare with focus on key enabling factors barriers.Health professionals who participate in seven Swedish responded questionnaire exploring factors, barriers...

High-quality leadership and chairing skills are central components in team performance during multidisciplinary (MDT) meetings. We hypothesized that the recently developed A Tumor Leadership Assessment inStrument (ATLAS) could provide relevant information to support more detailed insights into MDT aspects of relevance for feedback targeted improvements. The observational assessment instrument ATLAS rates meetings 12 predefined domains include e.g. time management, case prioritization,...

Background: Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings provide treatment recommendations based on available information and collective decision-making in teams with complementary professions, disciplines skills. We aimed to map ancillary medical nonmedical patient during case presentations discussions MDT cancer care. Methods: Through a nonparticipant, observational approach, we mapped verbal medical, patient-related characteristics classified these content. Data were collected from 336 three...

Purpose Cancer survivors experience barriers to primary healthcare (PHC) services. The aim was explore reactions and opinions about perceived challenges associated with PHC access quality among cancer in Sweden, including how they have acted adapt challenges.

Abstract Background Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) represent an integral component of modern cancer care and have increasingly been implemented to ensure accurate evidence-based treatment recommendations. During MDTMs, multiple complex medical patient-related information should be considered by a multi-professional whose members contribute various perspectives. Registered nurses (RNs) are expected share on the patient perspective at MDTMs. However, research suggests that RNs’...

Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings integrate complex information and base recommendations for clinical management on interdisciplinary multiprofessional decision-making. To support high-quality decision-making define key performance indicators, we aimed to determine completeness of case contributions MDT discussions in cancer care.In a prospective observational study design, based three MDTs, applied the Metric Observation Decision-Making (MODe) tool assess quality presentation members'...

Contact nursing services have been implemented in Swedish cancer care to increase healthcare quality. Too little is known about the content and quality of these organizational prerequisites provided contact nurses. The aim this study was explore nurses’ perceptions their prerequisites, as well connection between moral stress. A cross-sectional survey utilized consisting a study-specific questionnaire select part Stress Conscience Questionnaire. reported accordance with STROBE guidelines for...

Contact nurses in cancer care were vital sustaining Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to investigate their experiences providing people with these exceptional circumstances identify emerging challenges and opportunities that must be addressed moving forward. A survey distributed contact supplemented questions regarding design a cross-sectional survey, analyzed descriptive statistics content analysis, reported accordance STROBE. Almost half respondents ( n = 337)...