Multidisciplinary team working: key tool for evidence-based pediatrics

Abstract

Evidence-based medicine is a process that seeks to integrate evidence generated by research and daily clinical practice to optimize patient outcomes. Its application has been shown to improve patient care, specifically in standards of care and patient-physician communication. Although pediatrics has used scientific evidence as the basis for its practices for years, it is also known that many interventions used on a daily basis are the product of empirical knowledge, potentially generating deficits in the quality of care provided to patients. Evidence-based practice can be achieved better when it is applied by multidisciplinary teams involving physicians, nurses, psychologists, nutritionists, epidemiologists, engineers, and biologists, among others. In addition, there is an annual increase in the number of patients who require the support of complex coordination to control and manage diseases and disabilities. Pediatric patients with some medical complexity undoubtedly require multidisciplinary teams to address their care needs.

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