Palliative care interventions for patients with head and neck cancer: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A head and neck cancer (HNC) diagnosis significantly impacts a patient's quality of life (QOL). Palliative care potentially improves their QOL. We will conduct a scoping review to identify existing knowledge about palliative care interventions for patients with HNC.

Methods and analysis

This scoping review was designed in accordance with the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: Scoping Reviews and will be reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. Our eligibility criteria follow the Population, Intervention, Comparison or Control, Outcomes and Study characteristics framework. The population is adult patients with locally advanced, metastatic, unresectable and/or recurrent HNC. We incl

SUBMITTER: Ratnasekera N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10685954 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature