3.2.1 Supporting clinical decision-making
Service users and practitioners expressed the view that, the tool could
help them to make more appropriate decisions on cancer investigations
and referrals. One service user felt the tool will help to, “make
decisions appropriately” (Service User 1: individual interview).
A practitioner also said:
“I think one of the ways I can use this tool is when you have got
a differential in your mind, how can you put the cancer which may be at
the lower end of the spectrum to come on top?” (Practitioner 10
[GP]: FG 1).
Another practitioner said:
“I think the tool will help to guide the clinician to see the
broad level of differential diagnosis. It will also facilitate referral
of patients by presenting a quantitative risk value to help explain risk
and make a decision” (Practitioner 2 [GP]: FG 3).