Observational studyMedicine2017
Effects of multidisciplinary team on emergency care for colorectal cancer patients: A nationwide-matched cohort study.
Observational study in Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- A study of factors influencing access to MDT among patients with stage III to stage IV colorectal cancer: a national multicenter survey.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Building an integrated multidisciplinary care system for emergency surgery in abdominal cancer: a patient-centered perspective.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
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- Effect of multidisciplinary team care on patient survival in chronic hepatitis B or C hepatocellular carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Emergency surgical consultation for cancer patients: identifying the prognostic determinants of health.World journal of surgical oncology · 2022Article
- Effect of multidisciplinary team care on survival of oesophageal cancer patients: a retrospective nationwide cohort study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Improved Effects of a Multidisciplinary Team on the Survival of Breast Cancer Patients: Experiences from China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Observational
- Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting and Radiologist workload, a prospective review in a tertiary care hospital.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The literature describing the effectiveness of multidisciplinary team (MDT) for the care of colorectal cancer remains unclear. We investigated the effects of MDT care on the quality of colorectal cancer treatment, and the emergency department visit number was used as an indicator. In total, 45,418 patients newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (2005-2009) were included. Propensity score matching with a ratio of 1:3 was adopted to reduce differences in characteristics between MDT care participants and non-MDT care participants. After matching, 3039 participation MDT care groups and 9117 nonparticipation groups were included and analyzed with χ and t tests, determine the distribution was similar. Without the control of variables, the percentage difference between participation and nonparticipation MDT care groups in utilization of emergency care was 0.03% (P > .05). The logistic regression model involving controlled variables demonstrated that odds ratio (OR) by probability of emergency care used for participation MDT care groups within a year of cancer diagnosis was less than that for nonparticipation (OR = 0.87, 95% confidence interval: 0.78-0.96). Large amount data were used and confirmed significant benefits of MDT in colorectal cancer care.
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