Multidisciplinary collaboration for innovation has become an important issue in design practice and education. This paper examines three design projects of multidisciplinary collaboration between design schools and industry. We interviewed the participants to explore the advantages and disadvantages of multidisciplinary collaboration in design education. The results show multidisciplinary colla...

BACKGROUND Critically ill patients are medically complex and may benefit from a multidisciplinary approach to care. METHODS We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of medical patients admitted to Pennsylvania acute care hospitals (N = 169) from July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2006, linking a statewide hospital organizational survey to hospital discharge data. Multivariate logisti...

Multidisciplinary interventions have been developed for patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) and their families, with the aim of improving outcomes such as disease control, adherence, and quality of life. We reviewed the content of different multidisciplinary approaches to intervention for AD and evidence for their impact on key outcome measures. We also provided data from our multidisciplinary...

Enlightening the capability of health care systems to answer to the public demands of all ages is one of the greatest challenges of our time. This is the right time to think over multidisciplinary, integrated approach in health care delivery. To study the role of multidisciplinary, integrated approach towards the effective healthcare delivery based on systematic reviews. Survey Technique using ...

BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary team meetings are standard care for cancer in the UK and Europe. Professional bodies recommend that mesothelioma cases should be discussed at specialist multidisciplinary team meetings. However, no evidence exists exploring the role of the specialist mesothelioma multidisciplinary team meeting. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the clinical activity of 1 specialist mesotheli...

The TWINS project addresses industrial hardware-software co-design product development. In search for a multidisciplinary modeling solution, knowledge is required about the current practice of multidisciplinary development in industry. By analyzing user requirements, use cases, and applied tools and techniques of six industrial partners, this paper presents the current status of multidisciplina...

It has been clearly demonstrated that a high-quality and efficient cancer care system requires effective multidisciplinary teams that collaborate to provide patient-centered care. The current case report provides an example of the effective management of metastatic colorectal cancer through the use of a multidisciplinary tumor conference (MTC) to provide coordinated care throughout the disease ...

Multidisciplinary design optimization has become a powerful technique to facilitate continuous improvement of complex and multidisciplinary products. Parametric modeling is an essential part with tremendous impact on the flexibility and robustness of multidisciplinary design optimization. This article investigates the effect of relational and non-relational parameterization techniques on the ro...

BACKGROUND As the advent of genomic technology accelerates personalized medicine and complex care, multidisciplinary care is essential for management of breast cancer. OBJECTIVES To assess whether healthcare delivery systems are related to patients' perceptions of care in breast cancer treatment institutions. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional nationwide study of breast cancer treatment...