Interventions to improve early cancer diagnosis of symptomatic individuals: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To summarise the current evidence regarding interventions for accurate and timely cancer diagnosis among symptomatic individuals.

Design

A scoping review following the Joanna Briggs Institute's methodological framework for the conduct of scoping reviews and reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist.

Data sources

MEDLINE (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCOhost) and PsycINFO (Ovid) bibliographic databases, and websites of relevant organisations. Published and unpublished literature (grey literature) of any study type in the English language were searched for from January 2017 to January 2021.

Eligibility and criteria

Study participants were individuals of any age present

SUBMITTER: Okoli GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578990 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature