Quality Management 2017

Are MDMs cost effective? Advantages of MDMs

There were two non-randomised studies that reported results of

MDMs in cancer care :

• Fader et al (1998): with melanoma , the costs of health

care were 33% to 50% lower in patients whose

management decisions were made by an MDM

• Hagiwara et al. (2011): team for patients with haematologic

malignancies . It was found that incidences of hepatic

complications, hyperglycemia, and central venous catheter

infection were lower in the ‘after’ group than in the ‘before’

group, and costs fell by about 20%