Challenges of the Interdisciplinary Approach under the Perspective of the Multidisciplinary Team in a Referral Hospital for Cancer Treatment in Brazil

Abstract

Introduction: The interdisciplinarity is seen as an alternative that, added to the technological development, could contribute to the improvement of healthcare, but whose construction faces challenges. The Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Study and Treatment Group of a referral cancer treatment hospital formed by a multi-professional team, was created to promote interaction between the team and the improvement of patient care; nevertheless, still needs to move towards interdisciplinarity. Objective: To know and analyze the challenges of interdisciplinary intervention through the vision of the professionals who belong to the team. Method: Qualitative approach, with data collected through interviews with professionals of the group’s categories and analysis based on hermeneutic-dialectic. Results: One of the results was the understanding about the purpose of the group and the concepts of integrality and interdisciplinarity, including the perception about the patient care network. Other result was the presentation of objective and subjective challenges and their relation, respectively, to the management and relationship between the team, and between professionals and patients, for whom care is provided. In addition, it were presented positive results and progress, and the necessity to focus the attention to the team and its own care. Conclusion: It was verified the importance to encourage the professionals to think about their own individual and collective intervention, bearing in mind the possibilities that are within the scope of the team and others that could be the object of pledges and struggles for the effective implementation of National Health System and to value the potentialities and conquests already achieved.