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Trial Title:
Application of MDT Clinics in Arab World
NCT ID:
NCT05541770
Condition:
Multidisciplinary Communication
Study type:
Observational
Overall status:
Unknown status
Study design:
Time perspective:
Cross-Sectional
Intervention:
Intervention type:
Other
Intervention name:
Survey
Description:
Healthcare workers/Physicians involved in cancer diagnosis & management in the Arab
countries should respond to a survey
Summary:
Multidisciplinary clinics affect the quality of management of cancer patients. This
Questionnaire is for research purposes aiming at exploring the application and
implementation of multidisciplinary clinics in managing cancer patients in the Arab
countries. The results of this survey will shed the light on the situation; the
investigators aim at exploring the status of their implementation and who participates in
them, in addition to exploring the challenges that face MDT clinics in Arab world.
Detailed description:
Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are recommended as a corner stone of best cancer care
nowadays. MDTs consist of many professionals such as medical, nursing, and allied
professionals and diagnostic experts to determine the optimal treatment pathway for
individual patients. They should be well organized and efficient. MDT clinics care is
helpful in making clinical decision and improving the quality of patients' care. However,
there are many challenges that face the actual implementation and application of MDT
clinics in routine cancer patients' care in our Arab countries.
This study aims at describing the situation in our Arab countries and reflecting the
pathway & logistics of referring cancer patients to MDT & the impact of that on the
patients' management & outcome, in addition to exploring the challenges that face
effective implementation of MDT clinics, so that it can lead the improvement in oncology
manangement
Criteria for eligibility:
Study pop:
Oncology or non oncology physicians across the Arab countries.
Sampling method:
Non-Probability Sample
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Healthcare workers/Physicians involved in cancer diagnosis & management in the Arab
countries.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Health care workers/ Physicians who are not entitled for cancer management.
- Physicians who are not working in the Arab counties.
Gender:
All
Minimum age:
N/A
Maximum age:
N/A
Healthy volunteers:
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Start date:
November 1, 2022
Completion date:
January 30, 2023
Lead sponsor:
Agency:
Cairo University
Agency class:
Other
Source:
Cairo University
Record processing date:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05541770
