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- Title
The power of one: Evaluating the impact of a single multi‐disciplinary treatment visit on time to treatment.
- Authors
Sittenfeld, Sarah M. C.; Moore, Halle C. F.; Greenberg, Zachary; Al‐Hilli, Zahraa; Abraham, Jame; Grobmyer, Stephen R.; Monteleone, Emily; Tullio, Katherine; Shah, Chirag
- Abstract
Breast cancer treatment often requires multi‐disciplinary evaluation, which can require multiple visits, delaying time to treatment initiation (TTI). The present analysis evaluated the impact of system‐wide initiatives to reduce TTI by evaluating TTI for patients completing treatment evaluation in a single visit compared with those having multiple visits. The results demonstrated that patients who completed multi‐disciplinary evaluation in a single visit had a reduced median TTI (27 vs 32 days, P =.002), which was seen for patients undergoing initial surgery (28.0 vs 33.5 days, P =.01) as well as for those undergoing neoadjuvant systemic therapy (22.5 vs 29 days, P =.05).
- Subjects
BREAST tumor treatment; CANCER patients; CANCER patient medical care; HEALTH care teams; MEDICAL appointments; EVALUATION of medical care; TIME; TREATMENT duration; TREATMENT delay (Medicine)
- Publication
Breast Journal, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 10, p2015
- ISSN
1075-122X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/tbj.13875