Multidisciplinary team meetings in prosthetic joint infection management: A qualitative study
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Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) cause substantial morbidity to patients and are extremely challenging for clinicians. Their management can include multiple operations, antibiotics, and prolonged hospital admissions. Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTM) are increasingly used for collaborative decision-making around the management of PJIs, but thus far there has been no examination of the role of MDTM in decisions and management. This study aimed to examine interactions in a PJI MDTM to identify the dynamics in decision-making, and inter-specialty relationships more broadly.Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) cause substantial morbidity to patients and are extremely challenging for clinicians. Their management can include multiple operations, antibiotics, and prolonged hospital admissions. Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTM) are increasingly used for collaborative decision-making around the management of PJIs, but thus far there has been no examination of the role of MDTM in decisions and management. This study aimed to examine interactions in a PJI MDTM to identify the dynamics in decision-making, and inter-specialty relationships more broadly.
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Date
2023Source title
Infection, Disease & HealthPublisher
ElsevierFunding information
ARC LP170100300Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0Faculty/School
Faculty of Arts and Social SciencesDepartment, Discipline or Centre
Department of Sociology and Social PolicyShare