Abstract
Palliative, symptomatic and end-of-life care of advanced and metastatic cancer patients is a great challenge for every health care system. With the initiation and establishment of the multidisciplinary palliative tumor board (MPTB), our aims were the timely referral of patients to palliative care, and the avoidance of multiple unnecessary emergency visits and over-diagnostics without further treatment consequences. The MPTB meetings were held biweekly. The core members of the team were: palliative care consultant, medical oncologist, internal medicine physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, and oncology and palliative medicine nurses. From May 2019 till January 2020, we discussed the medical history of 97 cases of 93 cancer patients with advanced disease states; in one meeting the team usually discussed over 6-10 complex patient histories. In every case we determined the actual form of the necessary palliative care, e.g., outpatient clinic, home care, or institutional referral, and we decided on further possible and realistic oncology treatment regimes. A few months after the introduction of the new MPTB, we detected a decrease of the unnecessary emergency unit referrals considering the patients whose histories were discussed. Although the initial MPTB discussions had an intense emotional tone, they shortly became thoughtful and operational expert meetings. We believe that the MPTB system fully promotes the early and timely access of advanced cancer patients to appropriate palliative care and facilitates gradual changes in the medical oncologists' approach from the absolute curative determination to a supportive medical attitude. Orv Hetil. 2020; 161(34): 1423-1430.
Highlights
Palliative, symptomatic and end-of-life care of advanced and metastatic cancer patients is a great challenge for every health care system
With the initiation and establishment of the multidisciplinary palliative tumor board (MPTB), our aims were the timely referral of patients to palliative care, and the avoidance of multiple unnecessary emergency visits and over-diagnostics without further treatment consequences
In every case we determined the actual form of the necessary palliative care, e.g., outpatient clinic, home care, or institutional referral, and we decided on further possible and realistic oncology treatment regimes
Summary
Mangel László dr.1 ■ Lukács Miklós2 ■ Hajnal András dr. Sárkány Henrik1 ■ Forgács-Menyhért Mónika1, 2 ■ Varga Zsuzsanna dr.. Sárkány Henrik1 ■ Forgács-Menyhért Mónika1, 2 ■ Varga Zsuzsanna dr.. Herendi Eszter dr.1 ■ Papp Emőke dr.1 ■ Jéglné Illés Zsuzsanna Szigeti Nóra dr.4 ■ Almási Róbert dr.5 ■ Ferencz Sándor dr.. Bevezetés és célkitűzés: Az előrehaladott, áttétes daganatos betegek megfelelő tüneti és életvégi ellátása, illetve ennek elérése komoly kihívás minden egészségügyi ellátó számára. A palliatív onkoteamrendszer kialakításával célunk a betegek időbeni palliatív ellátásba vonása és a konzekvencia nélküli sürgősségi kivizsgálások és ellátások számának lehetőség szerinti csökkentése volt. 2019 májusa és 2020 januárja között 93, előrehaladott stádiumú daganatos betegnél 97 eseti megbeszélést tartottunk, egy-egy ülésen 6–10 beteg esetét tárgyaltuk végig. Hogy ez a rendszer is komolyan hozzájárulhat ahhoz, hogy az előrehaladott daganatos betegek időben palliatív szakellátáshoz jussanak, és ahhoz is, hogy a gyógyító onkológiai attitűd fokozatosan segítő orvosi hozzáállássá tudjon válni. The first experiences with the palliative tumor board discussions in the University of Pécs
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