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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BREAST CANCER
Volume 2011, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.4061/2011/831605
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- Cancer Research UK grant
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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, regularMDT meetings have become a standard practice in oncology and gained the status of the key decision-making forumfor patient management. Despite the fact that cancer MDTmeetings 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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