Feasibility of an environmental scan-based approach to collecting information about factors impacting cancer genetics services in Latin American countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Clinical cancer genetics services are expanding globally, but national policy and health care systems influence availability and implementation. Understanding the environmental factors within a country is required to appropriately implement, adapt, and evaluate cancer genetics service delivery models. An environmental scan (ES) is an approach used in business, public health, health care and other sectors to collect information about an environment or system for strategic decision making and program planning. An ES has been previously used to assess cancer genetics clinic-level factors to inform quality improvement efforts in the United States. We assessed the feasibility of using an ES to collect information about factors that may influence cancer genetics service deliver

SUBMITTER: Bednar EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11645378 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature