20 research outputs found
Self and other in global bioethics: critical hermeneutics and the example of different death concepts
The shadow clinic: Emails, “curbsides,” and “quick peeks” in pediatric dermatology
Emergency Consults in the Setting of Transplant Medicine: Dilemmas for Social Workers and Bioethicists
When Relatives and Friends Ask Physicians for Medical Advice: Ethical, Legal, and Practical Considerations
Family and transplant professionals’ views of organ recovery before circulatory death for imminently dying patients: A qualitative study using semistructured interviews and focus groups
Frequency of use of the religious exemption in New Jersey cases of determination of brain death
Medico-Legal Risk Associated with Pediatric Mental Health Telephone Consultation Programs
Making mediated memory work: Cuban-Americans, Miami media and the doings of diaspora memories
Multidisciplinary team in cancer management
The multidisciplinary team (MDT) is defined as a group of people of different healthcare disciplines, which meets together at a given time to discuss a given patient; each of them is able to contribute independently to the diagnostic and treatment decision about the patient. In general, surgeon, radiologist and medical oncology dignify the core member of the team. The concept of MDT was formally introduced into UK practice during the 1990s. A major impetus was given by the publication of the Calman-Hine report in 1995 and the consequent drive to ensure that all patients with cancer, no matter where they might live, and to whom they might have been referred, would have equal access to a high and uniform standard of care. Theoretically, MDT working should ensure an effective coordination, the best quality as well as a good continuity of patient care by bringing together key professionals with all necessary knowledge, skills and experience. The recent institution of Virtual Multidisciplinary Teem (vMDT) has been introduced to resolve the economical and organisational problems of MDT. MDT work is widely accepted in many other countries, e.g. USA, Australia and some countries in Europe, all of which have comparable initiatives to those listed above. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland. All rights reserved