Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Rounds in Improving Clinical Outcomes

Abstract

Multidisciplinary rounds unite healthcare professionals from distinct yet interdependent disciplines in a systematic, iterative process to collectively discuss and make real-time decisions about patients. The process adapts widely across healthcare settings, drawing on diverse notions of health, patient populations, and treatment modalities. Many institutions adopted specific multidisciplinary round formats, protocols, and tools to improve systematization and support a common understanding of the overall process. These systems became known as multidisciplinary round programs.