Utilizing the Multidisciplinary Team for Planning and Monitoring Care and Quality Improvement

Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery 2015; 28: 012-020DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1545065Multidisciplinary team management of patients with rectal cancer requires a dedicated group of surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, and mid-level providers who meet to discuss every patient with rectal cancer. The data from that meeting is collected prospectively, recommendations made for case, follow-up obtained, and quality issues monitored. Improved case is the result.[...]Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.Article in Thieme eJournals:Table of contents  |  Abstract  |  Full text
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