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Improving Multidisciplinary Team Working in Pelvic Oncology

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MDT working in cancer care was introduced 20 years ago and evidence of its benefits to patients and healthcare professionals is slowly emerging. Much of the work investigating MDT processes came from pelvic oncology, especially in urology. Studies have shown that a ‘systems approach’ to MDT working can reliably assess its quality, allowing for interventions that can lead to improvements in multidisciplinary teamworking and delivery of cancer care. This in turn can lead to better outcomes for patients with cancer.

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  1. Department of Urology, University Whipps Cross University Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

    Somita Sarkar MBChB, MRCS

  2. Department of Surgery and Cancer, University Imperial College London, London, UK

    Somita Sarkar MBChB, MRCS

  3. Department of Urology, University College Hospital, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Benjamin W. Lamb MBBS, MA, MRCS, PhD

  4. Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Benjamin W. Lamb MBBS, MA, MRCS, PhD, Tayana Soukup BSc, MSc & Nick Sevdalis BSc, MSc, PhD

  5. Department of Urology, Healtherwood and Wexham Park Hospital NHS Trust, Slough, Berkshire, UK

    Rozh T. Jalil MBChB, MRCS, MD

  6. Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London, London, UK

    Cath Taylor PhD

  7. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Charles Vincent PhD

  8. Department of Urology, Whipps Cross University Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

    James S. A. Green MBBS, LLM, FRCS (Urol)

  9. Department of Health and Social Care, London Southbank University, London, UK

    James S. A. Green MBBS, LLM, FRCS (Urol)

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Correspondence to Benjamin W. Lamb MBBS, MA, MRCS, PhD .

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  1. Urology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

    Hitendra R.H. Patel

  2. University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Tim Mould

  3. Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA

    Jean V. Joseph

  4. Colorectal Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Conor P. Delaney

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Sarkar, S. et al. (2015). Improving Multidisciplinary Team Working in Pelvic Oncology. In: Patel, H., Mould, T., Joseph, J., Delaney, C. (eds) Pelvic Cancer Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4258-4_1

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