Patient and Caregiver Considerations and Priorities When Selecting Hospitals for Complex Cancer Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare policies have focused on centralizing care to high-volume centers in an effort to optimize patient outcomes; however, little is known about patients' and caregivers' considerations and selection process when selecting hospitals for care. We aim to explore how patients and caregivers select hospitals for complex cancer care and to develop a taxonomy for their selection considerations.

Methods

This was a qualitative study in which data were gathered from in-depth interviews conducted from March to November 2019 among patients with hepatopancreatobiliary cancers who were scheduled to undergo a pancreatectomy (n = 20) at a metropolitan, urban regional, or suburban medical center and their caregivers (n = 10).

Results

The interviews revealed six broad

SUBMITTER: Fong ZV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9123936 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature