Telemedicine for multidisciplinary lung cancer meetings
| Autor: | A.S. Haque, A Sharma, A.G. Davison, S Doffman, R. P. Uppal, C.D. Eraut, A. Lamont, A Tanqueray, C.W. Trask |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
Patient Care Team
medicine.medical_specialty Telemedicine Lung Neoplasms Teleradiology Thoracic surgeon business.industry General surgery Thoracic Surgery Health Informatics Economic shortage Multidisciplinary team medicine.disease Resection Radiography England Multidisciplinary approach medicine Humans General hospital Intensive care medicine Lung cancer business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 10:140-143 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1109 1357-633X |
| Popis: | According to recent UK guidelines on the management of lung cancer, all cases should be reviewed prospectively by a lung cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT) and a thoracic surgeon should be readily available to liaise with the MDT. However, there is a shortage of thoracic surgeons in the UK. Over a one-year period, 28 MDT meetings were held at a district general hospital in Southend, at which 62 patients were presented to a tertiary cardiothoracic centre in London, 80 km away, via ISDN videoconferencing at 384 kbit/s. The annual resection rate increased by 30% following the introduction of the telemedicine MDT meetings, and the mean time from first being seen in the clinic to surgery was reduced from 69 to 54 days. We estimate that the telemedicine meetings saved over three working weeks of thoracic surgical time during the year. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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