Teamwork and team performance in multidisciplinary cancer teams: development and evaluation of an observational assessment tool.

Benjamin W Lamb; Charles A Vincent; James S A Green; Nick Sevdalis

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Teamwork and team performance in multidisciplinary cancer teams: development and evaluation of an observational assessment tool.

June 29, 2011

Lamb BW, Vincent CA, Green JSA, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20(10):849-56.

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This study piloted an observational tool to evaluate the performance of multidisciplinary cancer teams and found the tool to demonstrate content validity and feasibility.

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