Utilizing the multidisciplinary team for planning and monitoring care and quality improvement.
Multidisciplinary team management of patients with rectal cancer requires a dedicated group of surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, and mid-level providers who meet to discuss every patient with rectal cancer. The data from that meeting is collected prospectively, recommendations made for case, follow-up obtained, and quality issues monitored. Improved case is the result.
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
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Patel
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
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Franko
Department of Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
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Fleshman
multidisciplinary team; outcomes; quality; rectal cancer