Multidisciplinary team meetings: are all patients presented and does it impact quality of care and survival - a registry-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are part of the standard cancer care process in many European countries. In France, they are a mandatory condition in the authorization system for cancer care administration, with the goal to ensure that all new patients diagnosed with cancer are presented in MDTMs.

Aim

Identify the factors associated with non-presentation or unknown presentation in MDTMs, and study the impact of presentation in MDTMs on quality of care and survival in patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Methods

3999 CRC patients diagnosed between 2005 and 2014 in the area covered by the "Calvados Registry of Digestive Tumours" were included. Multivariate multinomial logistic regression was used to assess the factors associated with prese

SUBMITTER: Rollet Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8485542 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature