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).