Multidisciplinary care conferences and multidisciplinary meetings

SNOMED Groups Translation User Group
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Hi all,

I have an issue I would like to raise regarding the concepts of multidisciplinary care conferences and multidisciplinary meetings.

One of my colleagues has pointed out that multidisciplinary care conference is a very specific type of thing, namely:

“Multidisciplinary Care Conferences are an evidence-based approach to improve the monitoring and care of oncology patients by providing multidisciplinary collaboration in care plan development for the treatment of complex cancer patients.”

See: https://cpd.sutterhealth.org/0213-smmc-multidisciplinary-care-conference-rss-2023-2724/content/0213smmcmultidisciplinary-care-conferencerss2023-122623-21

And: https://stanford.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?P=0&EID=53865

Currently, we have translated multidisciplinary care conference as ‘multidisciplinair overleg’ or a multidisciplinary meeting, which we abbreviate as MDO. An MDO is a type of meeting that involves people with different backgrounds (at least two) discussing a specific patient’s case (See: Wat houdt een MDO in? | HIS-Referentiemodel).

I see, at face value at least, that many other languages have taken the same route in translating as we did at the Dutch NRC.

My questions are as follows:

  • Is your translation provided for the concept 384682003 | multidisciplinary care conference a semantically accurate one for this concept when referring to the meaning above?

  • Does the Dutch definition of a multidisciplinary meeting also exist in your language, if so, what term is used?

  • Would 287051000000107 | multidisciplinary meeting (procedure) fit instead? Or can you find any other concepts?

Thank you!

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In Norway we have only translated 287051000000107 |Multidisciplinary meeting (procedure)| (with “multidisiplinært teammøte” and “MDT-møte”), not 384682003 |Multidisciplinary care conference (procedure)|.

We understand Multidisciplinary meeting as “meetings of representatives from different relevant clinical specialties to recommend treatment and follow-up for individual patients” ( eHåndbok - Pasientforløp kreft: Organisering av multidisiplinært teammøte (MDT-møte). It seems this activity is related to the treatment of cancer.

However, we have found resources indicating that multidisplincary meetings are taking place in other clinical areas ( Multi-disciplinary Team Meeting (MDT) | Kettering General Hospital NHS).

Regarding Multidisciplinary care conferences, we are unsure of the meaning and relevance of the concept.

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As there is also a child concept for cancer specifically (399414003 | Multidisciplinary care conference for cancer care planning (procedure) |) I think we need to keep this more generic.

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