Defining timeliness in care for patients with lung cancer: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early diagnosis and reducing the time taken to achieve each step of lung cancer care is essential. This scoping review aimed to examine time points and intervals used to measure timeliness and to critically assess how they are defined by existing studies of the care seeking pathway for lung cancer.

Methods

This scoping review was guided by the methodological framework for scoping reviews by Arksey and O'Malley. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PsycINFO electronic databases were searched for articles published between 1999 and 2019. After duplicate removal, all publications went through title and abstract screening followed by full text review and inclusion of articles in the review against the selection criteria. A narrative synthesis describes the time points, interva

SUBMITTER: Ansar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8990712 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature