Assessment of Multidisciplinary Clinics Implementation in Cancer Patients' Management in Arab Countries
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 300
- 主要终点
- Investigate the main challenges to establish effective MDT clinics.
研究概览
简要总结
Multidisciplinary clinics affect the quality of management of cancer patients. This Questionnaire is for research purposes aiming at exploring the application and implementation of multidisciplinary clinics in managing cancer patients in the Arab countries. The results of this survey will shed the light on the situation; the investigators aim at exploring the status of their implementation and who participates in them, in addition to exploring the challenges that face MDT clinics in Arab world.
详细描述
Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are recommended as a corner stone of best cancer care nowadays. MDTs consist of many professionals such as medical, nursing, and allied professionals and diagnostic experts to determine the optimal treatment pathway for individual patients. They should be well organized and efficient. MDT clinics care is helpful in making clinical decision and improving the quality of patients' care. However, there are many challenges that face the actual implementation and application of MDT clinics in routine cancer patients' care in our Arab countries.
This study aims at describing the situation in our Arab countries and reflecting the pathway & logistics of referring cancer patients to MDT & the impact of that on the patients' management & outcome, in addition to exploring the challenges that face effective implementation of MDT clinics, so that it can lead the improvement in oncology manangement
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Healthcare workers/Physicians involved in cancer diagnosis & management in the Arab countries.
排除标准
- •Health care workers/ Physicians who are not entitled for cancer management.
- •Physicians who are not working in the Arab counties.
结局指标
主要结局
Investigate the main challenges to establish effective MDT clinics.
时间窗: Two months
We would like to know the main challenges to establish effective MDT clinics according to the physicians' point of view, who attend the MDT clinics . This will be done via a questionnaire.
Investigate the rate of discussing the suspected patients in MDT clinics
时间窗: Two months
We would like to know the rate of discussing suspected patients in MDT clinics. This will be done via a questionnaire.
次要结局
- Who usually attend the MDT in the Arab countries?(Two months)
- Describe the rate of well established and effective MDT in the Arab countries.(Two months)
研究者
Riham H. AbdelAziz
Clinical Oncology Lecturer and consultant
Cairo University