Table 4.

Quotations About the Theme: Relationships and Relationship Building

Participant Number	Indicative Quotation
14	“Yes, so I guess you get the best patient care, and it does help communicate with the rest of the team the treatment plan so we’re all in agreement.”
12	“and it’s good for general communication, I think, between all the team members. I think that in the end, [meetings] results in better patient care.”
7	“It also provides a good opportunity to have the face-to-face interactions with the surgeons who are often our referral base and it can facilitate communication with them. It’s often easier to do face to face than playing phone tag or through email.”
7	“it’s also a good forum for … updating best practice or changes in management. So, for example, I might not necessarily be completely up to speed with new changes in systemic therapy management or new drugs, but it may come out in a MDT discussion that there is this big update at a medical oncology conference and there’s a shift in the treatment paradigm for this particular stage of cancer.”