Quality improvement in multidisciplinar...

In Austria, treatment recommendations for patients with cancer are made by multidisciplinary teams in weekly meetings (MDTs or tumour boards) using a high range of financial, human and time resources. Although there is much information about multidisciplinary teamwork in healthcare, evidence for their quality in cancer care is still missing. The first results of a developed and tested self-assessment tool for tumour boards and assessment of structures and processes, such as team culture, decision-making and quality of presented information to identify the potential for quality improvement in MDT meetings, are reported.