The Impact of Team Process on Team Performance and on Quality of Care in Cancer Treatment.
The literature also describes how team processes may affect team performance or the process of patient care. Following the model of the cancer care continuum by Zapka et al. (2), if the interfaces between treatment stages are improved, then ultimately both patient care quality and patient care outcomes will improve. The literature on health-care teams has defined MDC teams as a crucial mechanism for improving “integrative health care” (6) and “collaborative health care” (30).