The effect of multidisciplinary teams for rectal cancer on delivery of care and patient outcome: has the use of multidisciplinary teams for rectal cancer affected the utilization of available resources, proportion of patients meeting the standard of care, and does this translate into changes in patient outcome?
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- 作者：Bradford Richardson ; M.D. ; M.P.H.a ; John Preskitt ; M.D.a ; Warren Lichliter ; M.D.a ; Stephanie Peschka ; R.N.a ; Susanne Carmack ; M.D.b ; Gregory de Prisco ; M.D.c ; James Fleshman ; M.D.a ; james.fleshman@baylorhealth.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Total mesorectal excision ; Circumferential resection margin ; Multi-disciplinary teams ; Rectal cancer
- 刊名：The American Journal of Surgery
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：January 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：211
- 期：1
- 页码：46-52
- 全文大小：190 K
文摘
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Nearly all variables showed improvements almost immediately after initiation of MDT conferences, and showed continued improvement after 1 year.
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Several variables have not reached a level that we find acceptable.
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This emphasizes that initiation of MDT conferences do not solve every problem overnight, but instead lead to continued improvements over time.