The interdisciplinary tumour board as an essential tool for quality management in care of cancer patients in a community hospital

About 70 percent of all cancer patients receive all of their cancer care in community hospitals. The initial evaluation and treatment decisions are the most critical in the outcome for a patient with cancer. The tumor-board offers a multidisciplinary patient-oriented conference that can lead to improved care of the cancer patient and to improved education of the treating physicians as well. A hospital tumour-board is a multidisciplinary group of physicians dealing with cancer patients that meets on a regular basis at least once a week to review cancer cases. In our hospital a weekly tumour-board was established…