Implementation of the measure of case discussion complexity to guide selection of prostate cancer patients for multidisciplinary team meetings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) provide an integrated team approach to ensure individualized and evidence-based treatment recommendations and best expert advice in cancer care. A growing number of patients and more complex treatment options challenge MDTM resources and evoke needs for case prioritization. In this process, decision aids could provide streamlining and standardize evaluation of case complexity. We applied the recently developed Measure of Case Discussion Complexity, MeDiC, instrument with the aim to validate its performance in another healthcare setting and diagnostic area as a means to provide cases for full MDTM discussions.

Methods

The 26-item MeDiC instrument evaluates case complexity and was applied to 364 men with newly diagnosed prosta

SUBMITTER: Wihl J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10417062 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature