Barriers and facilitators to integrated cancer care between primary and secondary care: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This scoping review identifies and characterises reported barriers and facilitators to providing integrated cancer care reported in the international literature, and develops recommendations for clinical practice.

Methods

This scoping review included literature published between 2009 and 2022 and describes the delivery of integrated cancer care between primary and secondary care sectors. Searches were conducted of an online database Ovid Medline and grey literature.

Results

The review included thirty-two papers. Barriers and facilitators to integrated cancer care were identified in three core areas: (1) at an individual user level around patient-healthcare professional interactions, (2) at an organisational level, and (3) at a healthcare system level. The revi

SUBMITTER: Collaco N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10803398 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature