Patients With Cancer Discussed During a Multidisciplinary Team Meeting
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Proportion of patients with a new diagnosis of cancer who were discussed at the multidisciplinary team meeting.
Numerator
Number of patients diagnosed with an invasive cancer in a given year discussed at the MDT within 1 month before and 6 months after incidence date.
Denominator
Number of patients diagnosed with an invasive cancer in a given year (first tumour only).
Exclusions
• Second and subsequent invasive tumours for the same patient during one incidence year (only the first tumour per incidence year is taken into account) • Patients without a Belgian residence • Patients without national social security number • Patients for whom no IMA data in the year of incidence were available (≈2% of the selected patients)
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
By tumour group and region.
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Belgian Cancer Registry, Kruispuntbank - Banque Carrefour