ReviewPulmonary therapy2021
Virtual Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards: A Narrative Review Focused on Lung Cancer.
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- Multidisciplinary Telemedicine in Healthcare During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Evaluation of the Virtual Multidisciplinary Team Meeting Model for Adult Patients on Haemodialysis: A Qualitative Study.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- Virtual sarcoma disease multidisciplinary team: a successful experience in the era of telemedicine and COVID-19 in Italy.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)-Based Approaches for Liver Cancer Treatment: A Discussion Paper on Tumor Boards and Beyond.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
- A qualitative study of providers' perspectives on cross-institutional care coordination for pancreatic cancer: challenges and opportunities.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- Actual and perceived gender differences in virtual tumor board participation.Surgery open science · 2023Article
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- Cloud platform to improve efficiency and coverage of asynchronous multidisciplinary team meetings for patients with digestive tract cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Virtual tumor boards: An approach to equity in cancer care.Health promotion perspectives · 2023Article
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- An IT Platform Supporting Rectal Cancer Tumor Board Activities: Implementation Process and Impact Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
To date, the virtual multidisciplinary tumor boards (vMTBs) are increasingly used to achieve high-quality treatment recommendations across health-care regions, which expands and develops the local MTB team to a regional or national expert network. This review describes the process of lung cancer-specific MTBs and the transition process from face-to-face tumor boards to virtual ones. The review also focuses on the project organization's description, advantages, and disadvantages. Semi-structured interviews identified five major themes for MTBs: current practice, attitudes, enablers, barriers, and benefits for the MTB. MTB teams exhibited positive responses to modeled data feedback. Virtualization reduces time spent for travel, allowing easier and timely patient discussions. This process requires a secure web platform to assure the respect of patients' privacy and presents the same unanswered problems. The implementation of vMTB also permits the implementation of networks especially in areas with geographical barriers facilitating interaction between large referral cancer centers and tertiary or community hospitals as well as easier access to clinical trial opportunities. Studies aimed to improve preparations, structure, and conduct of MTBs, research methods to monitor their performance, teamwork, and outcomes are also outlined in this article. Analysis of literature shows that MTB participants discuss 5-8 cases per meeting and that the use of a vMTB for lung cancer and in particular stage III NSCLC and complex stage IV cases is widely accepted by most health professionals. Despite still-existing gaps, overall vMTB represents a unique opportunity to optimize patient management in a patient-centered approach.
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