Table 3 Overview of the themes, categories, and codes of facilitators of and barriers to interprofessional collaboration specific for multidisciplinary team meetings

Organised participation of patient, informal caregiver, and healthcare professional in MDTMs

Participants in the MDTM

• Patient and/or family caregiver attending the MDTM

• Patient and family caregiver not involved in MDTM

• Multidisciplinary healthcare professionals attending the MDTM

• Decisive MDTM chairperson

• Patient-tailored presence of disciplines at MSTM

MDTM - Team procedures

• Patient and family caregiver influence on content of MDTM

• Ignoring team agreements regarding MDMT

• Clarity about MDTM process

• No clear vision about conducting the MDMT

• Clarity about goal of MDTM

• Clarity about chairmanship of MDTM

Methodical approach to MDTM

• Planned actions during MDTM

• Organized consultation structure for providing feedback from MDTM to patient and family caregiver