Transition to a virtual multidisciplinary tumor board during the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 pandemic: University of Pittsburgh experience
Harish Dharmarajan, Jennifer L. Anderson, Seungwon Kim, Shaum Sridharan, Umamaheswar Duvvuri, Robert L. Ferris, Mario G. Solari, David A. Clump, Heath D. Skinner, James Ohr, Dan P. Zandberg, Barton F. Branstetter, Marion A. Hughes, Katie Traylor, Raja R. Seethala, Simion I. Chiosea, Marci L. Nilsen, Jonas T. Johnson, Mark Kubik
Abstract
Multidisciplinary conferences (MDC) are an important component of head and neck oncologic care including diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. Virtual MDC allows for improved collaboration between providers at distant sites and proper allocation of health care resources in a time of crisis. When approached systematically, a virtual MDC is feasible to design and implement in a large academic medical center with multiple satellite hospitals.