Component | Description |
---|---|
Team composition | Administrative |
 | • Director/manager |
• Reception, clerical and bookings | |
Health professionals | |
• Assessment coordinators (examples): | |
• Radiologists | |
• Pathologists | |
• Primary care | |
• Psychosocial support | |
Specialists | |
• Surgeon specialists | |
• Respirologists (lung) | |
• Endoscopists (colorectal and other) | |
Technicians | |
• Ultrasound technologists | |
• Mammographers (breast) | |
Scope of diagnostic activity | Examination |
(diagnostic activity differs depending on disease site) | • Physical exam |
• Other disease site specific | |
Imaging, diagnostic and staging procedures | |
• Ultrasound | |
• MRI | |
• X-ray | |
• CT scan | |
• PET | |
• Upper endoscopy | |
• Colonoscopy | |
• Bronchoscopy | |
• Cystoscopy | |
• Bone scan | |
• Mammography | |
• Other disease site specific | |
Surgical consultation and procedures | |
• Biopsy | |
• Fine needle aspiration cytology | |
• Biopsy | |
Pathology and laboratory medicine | |
• Standardized surgical pathology requisition forms | |
• Routine analysis and pathology reporting | |
• Special pathological studies such as markers, flow, molecular, etc | |
• Clinical lab testing of tumour markers, hematology, etc. | |
Supportive care | |
• Education/psychosocial support | |
• Dietetics | |
• Genetic counselling | |
• Other supportive services | |
• Access | • Regionalized, centralized |
• One stop | |
• Virtual | |
• Entry point | • Primary care providers or specialist |
• Screening program | |
• Self referral | |
• Operational features | • Entry |
• Fast access booking | |
• Priority booking | |
• Open-access booking | |
• DAP core elements | • Assessment coordinator |
• Multidisciplinary care conference (MCC) team/treatment team | |
• Cross-DAP collaboration | |
• Provincial indicators of quality for cancer DAPs | • Time intervals |
• Clinical outcomes | |
• Quality of care | |
• Patient satisfaction | |
• Guidelines, standards and services frameworks | • Guidelines and service frameworks for primary care providers |
• Evidence-based investigative algorithms and guidance documents | |
• Wait-times benchmarks |