Multidisciplinary cancer conferences: Identifying opportunities to promote implementation

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2731-2737

  Wright, F C ^a   Lookhong, N ^a   Urbach, D ^c   Davis, D ^d   McLeod, R S ^b   Gagliardi, A R ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STANDARD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 73349125108     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0639-6     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Gouveia J, Coleman MP, Haward R, et al. Improving cancer control in the European union: conclusions from the Lisbon round-table under the Portuguese EU presidency, 2007. Eur J Cancer. 2008;44:1457-62.
2. Chang JH, Vines E, Bertsch H, et al. The impact of a multidis-ciplinary breast cancer center on recommendations for patient management: the University of Pennsylvania experience. Cancer. 2001;91:1231-7.
3. Newman EA, Guest AB, Helvie MA, et al. Changes in surgical management resulting from case review at a breast cancer mul-tidisciplinary tumor board. Cancer. 2006;107:2346-51.
4. Burton S, Brown G, Daniels IR, et al. MRI directed multidisci-plinary team preoperative treatment strategy: the way to eliminate positive circumferential margins? Br J Cancer. 2006;94:351-7.
5. Abraham NS, Gossey JT, Davila JA, Al-Oudat S, Kramer JK. Receipt of recommended therapy by patients with advanced colorectal cancer. Am J Gastroenterol. 2006;101:1320-8.
6. Scholnik AP, Arnold DJ, Gordon DC, Wiggins JD, Voorhees EG A new mechanism for physician participation in a tumor board. Prog Clin Biol Res. 1986;216:337-43.
7. Lutterbach J, Pagenstecher A, Spreer J, et al. The brain tumor board: lessons to be learned from an interdisciplinary conference. Onkologie. 2005;28:22-6.
8. Petty JK, Vetto JT. Beyond doughnuts: tumor board recommen-dations influence patient care. J Cancer Educ. 2002;17:97-100.
9. Smith DE, Davis S, Polissar L. The hospital cancer program: its impact on care of the rural cancer patient. Am Surg. 1979;45:730-7.
10. Wright FC, De Vito C, Langer B, Hunter A, Expert Panel on Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference Standards. Multidisciplin-ary cancer conferences: a systematic review and development of practice standards. Eur J Cancer. 2007;43:1002-10.
11. Gagliardi AR, Wright FC, Davis D, McLeod RS, Urbach DR. Challenges in multidisciplinary cancer care among general sur-geons in Canada. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008;8:59.
12. Gagliardi AR, Wright FC, Anderson MA, Davis D. The role of collegial interaction in continuing professional development. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2007;27:214-9.
13. Delaney G, Jacob S, Iedema R, Winters M, Barton M. Compar-ison of face-to-face and videoconferenced multidisciplinary clinical meetings. Australas Radiol. 2004;48:487-92.
14. Bauman G, Winquist E, Chin J. A pilot study of regional par-ticipation in a videoconferenced multidisciplinary genitourinary tumor board. Can J Urol. 2005;12:2532-6.
15. Kunkler IH, Rafferty P, Hill D, Henry M, Foreman D. A pilot study of tele-oncology in Scotland. J Telemed Telecare. 1998;4:113-9.
16. Qaddoumi I, Mansour A, Musharbash A, et al. Impact of tele-medicine on pediatric neuro-oncology in a developing country: the Jordanian-Canadian experience. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2007;48:39-43.
17. Fielding RG, Macnab M, Swann S, et al. Attitudes of breast cancer professionals to conventional and telemedicine-delivered multidisciplinary breast meetings. J Telemed Telecare. 2005;11(Suppl 2):S29-34.
18. Dickson-Witmer D. A statewide community cancer center vid-eoconferencing program. Ann Surg Oncol. 2008; 15:3058-64.
19. Ontario Population Projects. http://www.gov.on.ca/english/demo graphics/demog05tl.html.
20. Urbach DR, Simunovic M, Schultz SE. Cancer Surgery in Ontario ICES Atlas. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences: Toronto, Canada; 2008.
21. Gagliardi A, Smith A, Goel V, DePetrillo D. Feasibility study of multidisciplinary oncology rounds by videoconference for sur-geons in remote locales. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2003;3:7.
22. Mickan SM. Evaluating the effectiveness of health care teams. Aust Health Rev. 2005;29:211-7.
23. Haward R, Amir Z, Borrill C, et al. Breast cancer teams: the impact of constitution, new cancer workload, and methods of operation on their effectiveness. Br J Cancer. 2003;89:15-22.
24. Loughrey GJ, Carrington BM, Anderson H, Dobson MJ, Lo Ying Ping F. The value of specialist oncological radiology review of cross-sectional imaging. Clin Radiol. 1999;54:149-54; discussion 154-5.
25. Kane B, Luz S, O'Briain DS, McDermott R. Multidisciplinary team meetings and their impact on workflow in radiology and pathology departments. BMC Med. 2007;5:15
26. Multidisciplinary Cancer Care in Australia: information about the new MBS items for multidisciplinary cancer care. http://www.nbcc.org.au/bestpractice/ resources/MDCC-information aboutthen.pdf.
27. Van Belle S. How to implement the multidisciplinary approach in prostate cancer management: the Belgian model. BJU Int. 2008;101(Suppl 2):2-4.
28. Bradley EH, Holmboe ES, Mattera JA, Roumanis SA, Radford MJ, Krumholz HM. A qualitative study of increasing beta-blocker use after myocardial infarction: why do some hospitals succeed? JAMA. 2001;285:2604-11.
29. Helfrich CD, Weiner BJ, McKinney MM, Minasian L. Deter-minants of implementation effectiveness: adapting a framework for complex innovations. Med Care Res Rev. 2007;64:279-303.
30. Kelly MJ, Lloyd TDR, Marshall D, Garcea G, Sutton CD, Beach M. Original article: a snapshot of MDT working and patient mapping in the UK colorectal cancer centres in 2002. Colorectal Dis. 2003;5:577-81.
31. Acher PL, Young AJ, Etherington-Foy R, McCahy PJ, Deane AM. Improving outcomes in urological cancers: the impact of "multidisciplinary team meetings." Int J Surg. 2005;3:121-3.
32. Commission on Cancer. Cancer Program Standards Revised edition 2009. http://www.facs.org/cancer/coc/cocprogramstand ards.pdf Accessed 21 April 2009.
33. Kellerman SE, Herold J. Physician response to surveys. A review of the literature. Am J Prev Med. 2001;20:61-7.