Multidisciplinary team (MDT) model in cancer care was introduced and endorsed to ensure that care delivery is consistent with the best available evidence. Over the last few years, regular MDT meetings have become a standard practice in oncology and gained the status of the key decision-making forum for patient management. Despite the fact that cancer MDT meetings are well accepted by clinicians...

The incurable nature, coupled with the myths and mysticisms, kept leprosy away from the main stream of medicine. For similar reasons, public health experts also stayed away, leaving the problems mostly to the social workers and few leprosy specialists. It was the advent of an effective treatment with dapsone and later with MDT that leprosy came to be dealt within the public health terms, with e...

Following the establishment of a discharge working group, several concerns were raised about the management of multidisciplinary team (MDT) discharge meetings throughout the trust. A project was established to observe MDT meetings, identify good practice and produce practice guidance to improve standards and achieve consistency throughout the organisation.

This is the first report of secondary resistance to rifampin following MDT in a patient with prolonged, but irregular treatment. Repeated mouse foot-pad studies demonstrated resistance to dapsone after several years of monotherapy, and following subsequent MDT the studies demonstrated the development of resistance to rifampin.

STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE To report the clinical course of patients with MRI-confirmed lumbar disc herniation-related radicular noncentralizing pain who received transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TESIs) and mechanical diagnosis and therapy (MDT). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Noncentralizing symptoms in patients with lumbar disc herniation are associated with p...

Integration of leprosy control into the general health system is an essential element of a leprosy elimination strategy. In India, the process has been undertaken with the assistance of World Bank in a phased manner. In the first phase (2001-2002), 24 low/moderately endemic provinces for leprosy were targeted. Operational research was undertaken in these low/moderate endemic provinces to assess...

AIM To study the magnitude of default, time of default, its causes, and final clinical outcome. METHODS Data collected in active surveys in Agra is analyzed. Patients were given treatment after medical confirmation and were followed up. The treatment default and other clinical outcomes were recorded. RESULTS Patients who defaulted have comparable demographic characteristics. However, among ...

BACKGROUND The number of reliable and valid instruments to measure the effects of therapy in apraxia of speech (AoS) is limited. AIMS To evaluate the newly developed Modified Diadochokinesis Test (MDT), which is a task to assess the effects of rate and rhythm therapies for AoS in a multiple baseline across behaviours design. METHODS The consistency, accuracy and fluency of speech of 24 adul...

OBJECTIVES To prospectively use a non-invasive algorithm to identify asymptomatic, advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in a secondary care diabetes clinic and to determine the short-term effect of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach in a liver clinic. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS NAFLD Fibrosis Score (NFS) was calculated in 64 asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes. Adv...

OBJECTIVE To describe the profile of patients who participated in the Randomised Clinical Trial for Uniform Multidrug Therapy for Leprosy Patients in Brazil (U-MDT/CT-BR) and determine the level of satisfaction with a uniform therapy regimen, especially among paucibacillary patients. DESIGN This is a descriptive cross-sectional epidemiologic study nested in the wider U-MDT/CT-BR. The study wa...