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Hospital-based multidisciplinary lung cancer care in Australia: a survey of the landscape in 2021.

Fraser J H BrimsChellan KumarasamyJessica NashTracy L LeongEmily StoneHenry M Marshall
Published in: BMJ open respiratory research (2022)
This survey demonstrates variations in infrastructure support, provision and membership of lung cancer MDTs, in particular thoracic surgery and specialist lung cancer nurses. This heterogeneity may contribute to some of the well-documented variations in lung cancer outcomes in Australia.
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