ASO Author Reflections: The Pursuit of Digitalised Quality Improvement Assessment Tools for Cancer Multidisciplinary Teams

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For the past 20 years, the cornerstone of cancer care has been the multidisciplinary tumour board (MTB), who meet regularly to discuss care for people with cancer. MTBs are valued, but the quality of their functionality is variable and affected by a number of factors from logistics to team composition, complexity of cases, and time and workload pressures.1,2 Methods have been established for assessing and improving the way MTBs work in their meetings. A number of tools currently exist that focus on different aspects of MTBs’ functionality.3 One such example is the Metric for the Observation of Decision-making (MODe). This was developed with a focus on assessing and improving MTBs’ decision-making and teamwork, but it can be cumbersome for use in routine clinical practice by healthcare staff.4 We set out to modify the MODe tool so that it could more readily be used by MTBs interested in assessing and improving the way they work.5 …