The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Approach and Quality of Care

The core function of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) is to bring together a group of healthcare professionals from different fields in order to determine patients' treatment plan. Most of head and neck cancer (HNC) units are currently led by MDTs that at least include ENT and maxillofacial surge...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in oncology Jg. 10; S. 85
Hauptverfasser: Taberna, Miren, Gil Moncayo, Francisco, Jané-Salas, Enric, Antonio, Maite, Arribas, Lorena, Vilajosana, Esther, Peralvez Torres, Elisabet, Mesía, Ricard
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 20.03.2020
Schlagworte:
head and cancer unit
head and neck cancer
multidisciplinary team
Oncology
quality of care
tumor board
multidisciplinary team
head and cancer unit
head and neck cancer
tumor board
quality of care
ISSN:2234-943X, 2234-943X
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Zusammenfassung:The core function of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) is to bring together a group of healthcare professionals from different fields in order to determine patients' treatment plan. Most of head and neck cancer (HNC) units are currently led by MDTs that at least include ENT and maxillofacial surgeons, radiation and medical oncologists. HNC often compromise relevant structures of the upper aerodigestive tract involving functions such as speech, swallowing and breathing, among others. The impairment of these functions can significantly impact patients' quality of life and psychosocial status, and highlights the crucial role of specialized nurses, dietitians, psycho-oncologists, social workers, and onco-geriatricians, among others. Hence, these professionals should be integrated in HNC MDTs. In addition, involving translational research teams should also be considered, as it will help reducing the existing gap between basic research and the daily clinical practice. The aim of this comprehensive review is to assess the role of the different supportive disciplines integrated in an MDT and how they help providing a better care to HNC patients during diagnosis, treatment and follow up.
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Reviewed by: Markus Brunner, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; Jan Baptist Vermorken, University of Antwerp, Belgium
This article was submitted to Head and Neck Cancer, a section of the journal Frontiers in Oncology
Edited by: Andreas Dietz, Leipzig University, Germany
ISSN:2234-943X
2234-943X
DOI:10.3389/fonc.2020.00085