Multidisciplinary cancer care in Belgium: government funding to support multidisciplinary meetings

Miscommunication can have a negative impact on the quality of cancer care delivered to patients, but bultidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings can improve communication between healthcare professionals involved in cancer care.

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Multidisciplinary care

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Choosing Wisely®: clinician and patient guidelines for reducing unnecessary and low-value care

The Choosing Wisely® campaign was set up to reduce waste in healthcare and encourage evidence-based doctor–patient communication about appropriate and necessary care.

Diagnosis

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Treatment

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Personalised care

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Patient involvement

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Models of care

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CancerLinQ®: harnessing real-world data from electronic health records to improve cancer care

CancerLinQ® is a rapid learning health system that summarises large amounts of real-world data in real time. It collects both structured and unstructured data through an automatic daily feed from electronic health records and other sources.

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Use of data or digital health

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Data collection

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Systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) data set: collecting and using real-world data to improve cancer care

Systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACTs), including chemotherapy, are provided across the English National Health Service (NHS) – and real-world data on the resulting patient outcomes can help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of cancer care.

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Use of data or digital health

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Data collection

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GE Healthcare Adventure Series™: making imaging more child-friendly

Imaging tests can be frightening for children, resulting in many paediatric patients requiring sedation for these procedures. GE Healthcare introduced the Adventure Series™ to tackle this problem.

North America

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Holistic support

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Many aspects of care

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PRIAS: active surveillance for men with low-risk prostate cancer

Active surveillance aims to prevent overtreatment by closely monitoring men with low-risk prostate cancer without them having to undergo cancer treatment.

Time to diagnosis

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International

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Prevention

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Screening

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Moovcare®: web-based follow-up care for lung cancer patients

Researchers in France developed a web-based algorithm to help oncologists take action at the first signs of a potential lung cancer relapse.

Europe

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Follow-up

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Use of data or digital health

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Martini-Klinik: patient-centred outcomes data collection to improve prostate cancer care

The Martini-Klinik, a specialist prostate cancer clinic in Germany, systematically measures the quality of its care using outcomes that are most relevant to patients. Examples include rates of incontinence and erectile dysfunction following treatment.

Europe

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Use of data or digital health

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Data collection

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PROCHE: efficient delivery of chemotherapy through better use of patient data

The Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris created the Programme d’Optimisation du Circuit des Chimiothérapies (PROCHE) to improve the chemotherapy process for patients by assessing their suitability for chemotherapy before scheduled appointments.

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Treatment

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Models of care

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