Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology
Multidisciplinary team (MDT) model in cancer care was introduced and endorsed to ensure that care delivery is consistent with the best available evidence. Over the last few years, regular MDT meetings have become a standard practice in oncology and gained the status of the key decision-making forum...
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| author | Vivek Patkar Dionisio Acosta Tim Davidson Alison Jones John Fox Mohammad Keshtgar |
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| description | Multidisciplinary team (MDT) model in cancer care was introduced and endorsed to ensure that care delivery is consistent with the best available evidence. Over the last few years, regular MDT meetings have become a standard practice in oncology and gained the status of the key decision-making forum for patient management. Despite the fact that cancer MDT meetings are well accepted by clinicians, concerns are raised over the paucity of good-quality evidence on their overall impact. There are also concerns over lack of the appropriate support for this important but overburdened decision-making platform. The growing acceptance by clinical community of the health information technology in recent years has created new opportunities and possibilities of using advanced clinical decision support (CDS) systems to realise full potential of cancer MDT meetings. In this paper, we present targeted summary of the available evidence on the impact of cancer MDT meetings, discuss the reported challenges, and explore the role that a CDS technology could play in addressing some of these challenges. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8fc354a2ae8c4c74b91c1333b08c530d2025-02-03T06:12:22ZengWileyInternational Journal of Breast Cancer2090-31892011-01-01201110.4061/2011/831605831605Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support TechnologyVivek Patkar0Dionisio Acosta1Tim Davidson2Alison Jones3John Fox4Mohammad Keshtgar5Breast Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG, UKUniversity College London, London W1W 7EJ, UKBreast Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG, UKBreast Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG, UKDepartment of Engineering Science, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UKBreast Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG, UKMultidisciplinary team (MDT) model in cancer care was introduced and endorsed to ensure that care delivery is consistent with the best available evidence. Over the last few years, regular MDT meetings have become a standard practice in oncology and gained the status of the key decision-making forum for patient management. Despite the fact that cancer MDT meetings are well accepted by clinicians, concerns are raised over the paucity of good-quality evidence on their overall impact. There are also concerns over lack of the appropriate support for this important but overburdened decision-making platform. The growing acceptance by clinical community of the health information technology in recent years has created new opportunities and possibilities of using advanced clinical decision support (CDS) systems to realise full potential of cancer MDT meetings. In this paper, we present targeted summary of the available evidence on the impact of cancer MDT meetings, discuss the reported challenges, and explore the role that a CDS technology could play in addressing some of these challenges.http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/831605 |
| spellingShingle | Vivek Patkar Dionisio Acosta Tim Davidson Alison Jones John Fox Mohammad Keshtgar Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology International Journal of Breast Cancer |
| title | Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology |
| title_full | Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology |
| title_fullStr | Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology |
| title_short | Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology |
| title_sort | cancer multidisciplinary team meetings evidence challenges and the role of clinical decision support technology |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/831605 |
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