Audit whether tumour board recommendations were actually carried out
Hospitals hold weekly meetings to decide each patient's plan but rarely check what happened afterwards. A simple loop that records the recommendation and checks it against what was done would catch dropped plans.
Studies suggest that a meaningful minority of multidisciplinary team recommendations are not implemented, for reasons ranging from patient choice to lost referrals, and few boards track this. Recording each recommendation as structured data and reconciling it automatically with subsequent orders and treatment records would produce an implementation rate per team, with reasons for deviation, closing the loop on the most important decision point in cancer care.
- Fragmented care and guideline gaps · Patients fall between specialists, wait for referrals and often do not get the treatment guidelines say they should.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- CollectionESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines & MCBS
Shares Live guideline-concordance dashboards for every tumour board, generated from the record, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
- CollectionNCCN Guidelines
Shares Live guideline-concordance dashboards for every tumour board, generated from the record, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.