Motivators, Barriers, and Facilitators to Traveling to the Safest Hospitals in the United States for Complex Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Directing patients to safer hospitals for complex cancer surgery (regionalization) may prevent thousands of mortalities in the United States.

Objective

To understand the potential for individuals to move to safer hospitals: what would inspire them to travel (motivators), what challenges would they face (barriers), and what would enable them to travel (facilitators).

Design, setting, and participants

This nationally representative online survey study asked respondents to consider complex cancer surgery at their local hospital or a hospital specializing in cancer an hour farther away. Completed surveys were weighted across sociodemographics to be nationally representative and outcomes were reported as weighted percentages. In January 2018, a panel of 1817 US

SUBMITTER: Resio BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324377 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature