“Being able to have regular meetings with our surgeons, I think
streamlines a lot of this activity” (A1).
All tasks in Table 2 were also conducted during interdepartmental AMS
meetings. Education observed during meetings was not always
patient-specific, with teams seen to discuss medication choices and
conditions unrelated to their patients. This was confirmed in interviews
at Hospital A, “The other thing it does, which I think is really
important, is that it [the meetings] helps, kind of maintain the
kind of education and expectations around prescribing”. (A1) Several
participants at Hospital A also perceived that the AMS meetings improved
interdepartmental relationships, “I find like, as I said before,
there’s just a lot of respect for ID opinion, I feel like, because of
the AMS meetings.” (A5)
Organisation
The key themes that emerged in the Organisation domain were the
structure of the AMS team, relationships both within the AMS team and
between the AMS team and other departments, executive support, AMS
policy, and staff employment. Results are summarised in Table 4.