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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

Team dynamics and clinician's experience influence decision-making during Upper-GI multidisciplinary team meetings: A multiple case study.

J C H B M Luijten, M J Westerman, G A P Nieuwenhuijzen, J E W Walraven, M N Sosef, L V Beerepoot, R van Hillegersberg, K Muller, R Hoekstra, J J G H M Bergman and 6 more

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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J C H B M LuijtenDepartment of Research & Development, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL), Utrecht, Netherlands.
M J WestermanDepartment of Epidemiology and Data Science Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
G A P NieuwenhuijzenDepartment of Surgery, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
J E W WalravenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
M N SosefDepartment of Surgery, Zuyderland Hospital, Heerlen, Netherlands.
L V BeerepootDepartment of Medical Oncology, Elisabeth Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, Netherlands.
R van HillegersbergDepartment of Surgery, Utrecht University Medical Center (UMC), Utrecht, Netherlands.
K MullerDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Radiotherapy Group, Deventer, Netherlands.
R HoekstraDepartment of Medical Oncology, Hospital group Twente (ZGT), Almelo, Netherlands.
J J G H M BergmanDepartment of Gastroenterology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
P D SiersemaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
H W M van LaarhovenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
C RosmanDepartment of Surgery, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
L BromDepartment of Research & Development, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL), Utrecht, Netherlands.
P A J VissersDepartment of Research & Development, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL), Utrecht, Netherlands.
R H A VerhoevenDepartment of Research & Development, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL), Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Abstract

Background: The probability of undergoing treatment with curative intent for esophagogastric cancer has been shown to vary considerately between hospitals of diagnosis. Little is known about the factors that attribute to this variation. Since clinical decision making (CDM) partially takes place during an MDTM, the aim of this qualitative study was to assess clinician's perspectives regarding facilitators and barriers associated with CDM during MDTM, and second, to identify factors associated with CDM during an MDTM that may potentially explain differences in hospital practice. Methods: A multiple case study design was conducted. The thematic content analysis of this qualitative study, focused on 16 MDTM observations, 30 semi-structured interviews with clinicians and seven focus groups with clinicians to complement the collected data. Interviews were transcribed Results: Factors regarding team dynamics that were raised as aspects attributing to CDM were clinician's personal characteristics such as ambition and the intention to be innovative. Clinician's convictions regarding a certain treatment and its outcomes and previous experiences with treatment outcomes, and team dynamics within the MDTM influenced CDM. In addition, a continuum was illustrated. At one end of the continuum, teams tended to be more conservative, following the guidelines more strictly, versus the opposite in which hospitals tended towards a more invasive approach maximizing the probability of curation. Conclusion: This study contributes to the awareness that variation in team dynamics influences CDM during an MDTM.

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cliniciansexperiencemultidisciplinary team meeting (MDT)team dynamicsupper-GI cancer

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