| Literature DB >> 29434879 |
Antonella Colasante1, Antonietta Augurio2, Raffaella Basilico3, Antonio Raffaele Cotroneo3, Maria B Di Sciascio4, Giuseppe Gaspari5, Domenico Genovesi2, Jamara Giampietro6, Romina Iantorno5, Antonio Marchetti1, Clara Natoli6, Antonello Nuzzo6, Floriana Ottaviani7, Paolo Pompa8, Pietro Castellan5, Raffaele Tenaglia9, Annamaria Vinciguerra2.
Abstract
Increased knowledge regarding the heterogeneity of Prostate Cancer (PC) and its variable outcomes has generated controversy over the best clinical approach. Nowadays, it is well-known that patient outcomes and clinical management may be improved by an efficient organization of the national health care system. The Interdisciplinary Group for Oncological Care (GICO) for PC patients was created by our healthcare management company in September 2010. Since then, a multidisciplinary internal report was applied to PC patients. This report highlights our methodology and experience of planning a GICO, and illustrates the results obtained for the management of PC patients before and after the adopted GICO criteria in a single institution, the SS Annunziata Hospital (Chieti, Italy).Entities:
Keywords: multidisciplinary team; prostate cancer; shared decision making
Year: 2017 PMID： 29434879 PMCID： PMC5777099 DOI： 10.3892/ol.2017.7506
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Oncol Lett ISSN： 1792-1074 Impact factor: 2.967