Multidisciplinary team meetings: dynamic routines that (re)make palliative care.
Multidisciplinary team meetings are part of the everyday working life of palliative care staff. Based on ethnographic material from community and hospital palliative care teams in England, this article examines these meetings as dynamic routines. Although intended to have a prescribed format to revi...
| Published in: | Health Sociology Review Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 77 - 92 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2025
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