Quality Management 2017

Issues of MDMs

• None of the included studies in this review has accounted for the full costs of administering, preparing for and attending an MDM

• An audit conducted at a large teaching hospital/cancer centre estimated that the average annual cost of MDMs in salaries alone was about £1 million

Fosker CJ, Dodwell D: The cost of the MDT (2010)

The omission of the associated costs in any cost-effectiveness analysis of MDM could lead to an underestimation of costs