Emma Is a Patient Advocate Who Has Worked So Much

question 9

Multiple Choice

Emma is a patient advocate who has worked so much with clinical researchers in the internal medicine unit that she has started to be able to develop interview protocols for conducting focus group interviews. This is an example of which type of health care team?

• A) Nominal care team
• B) Unidisciplinary team
• C) Multidisciplinary team
• D) Interdisciplinary team
• E) Transdisciplinary team

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