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Health professionals’ views on key enabling factors and barriers of national multidisciplinary team meetings in cancer care : A qualitative study

Rosell, Linn LU orcid ; Wihl, Jessica LU ; Nilbert, Mef LU and Malmström, Marlene LU orcid (2020) In Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 13. p.179-186
Abstract

Purpose: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are an integral component of cancer care. Increasingly, virtual MDTMs are used to grant high-quality treatment recommendations across health-care regions, which expands and develops the local MDTM team to a regional or national expert network. We investigated health professionals’ experiences from national, virtual MDTMs for rare cancer with a focus on key enabling factors and barriers. Methods: Health professionals who participate in seven national, virtual MDTMs in Swedish health-care responded to a questionnaire exploring key enabling factors, barriers and opportunities for MDTM development. Conventional content analysis was used to identify thematic categories based on free-text... (More)

Purpose: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are an integral component of cancer care. Increasingly, virtual MDTMs are used to grant high-quality treatment recommendations across health-care regions, which expands and develops the local MDTM team to a regional or national expert network. We investigated health professionals’ experiences from national, virtual MDTMs for rare cancer with a focus on key enabling factors and barriers. Methods: Health professionals who participate in seven national, virtual MDTMs in Swedish health-care responded to a questionnaire exploring key enabling factors, barriers and opportunities for MDTM development. Conventional content analysis was used to identify thematic categories based on free-text responses. Results: Participants´ perspectives could be assigned into three categories ie, a national arena with potential for comprehensive knowledge and collaboration, prerequisites for decision-making and organization and responsibilities. These categories consisted of nine sub-categories that referred to, eg, collective competence, resources, clinical research, case discussion, meeting climate, patient-related information, MDTMs potential, referral and technical insufficiencies. Conclusion: National, virtual MDTMs represent a new multidisciplinary collaborative arena that introduces benefits as well as challenges. Consideration of key enabling factors and barriers may ease implementation and further optimize MDTMs in cancer care.

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Content analysis, Decision-making, Healthcare team, Rare cancer, Treatment recommendation, Tumor board
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Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
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13
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8 pages
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Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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  • pmid:32103978
  • scopus:85079675265
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1178-2390
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10.2147/JMDH.S240140
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English
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  author       = {{Rosell, Linn and Wihl, Jessica and Nilbert, Mef and Malmström, Marlene}},
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  pages        = {{179--186}},
  publisher    = {{Dove Medical Press Ltd.}},
  series       = {{Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare}},
  title        = {{Health professionals’ views on key enabling factors and barriers of national multidisciplinary team meetings in cancer care : A qualitative study}},
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  doi          = {{10.2147/JMDH.S240140}},
  volume       = {{13}},
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