Using Telemedicine to Facilitate Patient Communication and Treatment Decision-Making Following Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Review for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Choi DT, Sada YH, Sansgiry S, Kaplan DE, Taddei TH, Aguilar JK, Strayhorn M, Hernaez R, Davila JA. Using Telemedicine to Facilitate Patient Communication and Treatment Decision-Making Following Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Review for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Journal Of Gastrointestinal Cancer 2022, 54: 623-631. PMID: 35773376, PMCID: PMC9247952, DOI: 10.1007/s12029-022-00844-w.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVA Medical CenterHepatocellular carcinomaTreatment recommendationsPerson visitsPatient's perspectiveTumor board recommendationsTumor board reviewCancer care deliveryUse of telemedicineDelivery of careTypes of cancerMTB recommendationsTelemedicine visitsTelemedicine interventionsTreatment referralMedical CenterSemi-structured qualitative interviewsPatientsPilot interventionCare deliveryPatient communicationCancer informationPilot studyAcceptable alternativeIntervention developmentQuality measures in HCC care by the Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Asrani SK, Ghabril MS, Kuo A, Merriman RB, Morgan T, Parikh ND, Ovchinsky N, Kanwal F, Volk ML, Ho C, Serper M, Mehta S, Agopian V, Cabrera R, Chernyak V, El‐Serag H, Heimbach J, Ioannou GN, Kaplan D, Marrero J, Mehta N, Singal A, Salem R, Taddei T, Walling AM, Tapper EB. Quality measures in HCC care by the Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Hepatology 2022, 75: 1289-1299. PMID: 34778999, DOI: 10.1002/hep.32240.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPatient-reported outcomesHigh-risk populationHCC careCare continuumBarcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stagingData System (BI-RADS) 4 lesionsBurden of HCCLiver transplantation candidacyTumor board reviewLiver Imaging ReportingFear of treatmentStructured scoping reviewExplicit quality measuresAmerican AssociationTransplantation candidacyBest individual treatmentPalliative therapyGuideline recommendationsLiver diseaseAFP elevationAppropriate referralTreatment optionsTreatment recommendationsCancer stagingOutcome measures