A or B, what’s your call?
The Weekly Cases is an email subscription programme in which you will receive easy-to-consume, but hard-to-answer patient cases. On a weekly basis you will get challenged to mirror your decision with those of the expert panel and your peers.
During the 4th edition of the Global Congress on Prostate Cancer (PROSCA) in June this year, a session was dedicated to easy-to-consume, clinically relevant prostate cancer cases that are part of the Mirrors of Medicine Weekly Cases programme.
Prof. Bertrand Tombal (urologist, Belgium) moderated the session and the multidisciplinary expert panel consisted of Prof. Gert De Meerleer (radiation oncologist, Belgium), Dr. Maria De Santis (medical oncologist, United Kingdom) and Dr. Inge van Oort (urologist, Netherlands).
After a very short presentation of the patient’s background, the participants of the congress could vote on two possible decisions regarding prostate cancer diagnosis or treatment. Afterwards, the appropriateness of each option was discussed and background evidence and guidelines were presented to support the given answers. These patient cases clearly illustrated the complex decision making in everyday clinical practice. Participants of the session provided positive feedback and found the cases helpful to keep up to date with the available evidence.
Mirrors of Medicine
Mirrors of Medicine™ is an open, multidisciplinary platform facilitating single access to unique CME programmes focused on improving clinical decision making. The platform related to prostate cancer is built around five interactive models, each containing a variety of patient profiles, and covers
- diagnosis
- localised prostate cancer
- high-risk non-metastatic prostate cancer
- biochemical recurrence after radical treatment
- metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
For each model, the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method was used to identify the best available evidence at patient-specific level. The primary source of information includes high-quality clinical studies. If these studies are not available or are insufficiently detailed, the collective judgement by an expert panel is used as a complementary source.
The aim of the programme is to train healthcare professionals in applying the best available scientific evidence to individual decision in daily practice.
The Weekly Cases
The Weekly Cases is an email subscription programme in which you receive easy-to-consume, hard-to-answer patient cases every Tuesday and get challenged to mirror your decision with those of the expert panel and your peers. These Weekly Cases are linked to the interactive models on prostate cancer.
Every case can be answered with a single click on one out of two options. After solving the case, immediate feedback is provided, in particular through the opinion of the expert panel and of peers who also received and answered the case. For those eager to learn more about the evidence behind the solutions, additional supporting information is linked.
Create your own patient cases based on clinical variables
By using the Mirrors of Medicine application (available for Android, iPhone), it is also easy to create your own patient cases based on clinical variables and to immediately see the recommendations and evidence behind it.
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