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Services, models of care, and interventions to improve access to cancer treatment for adults who are socially disadvantaged: A scoping review protocol

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  • Tara C Horrill
  • Amber Bourgeois
  • Max Kleijberg
  • Janice Linton
  • Kate Leahy
  • Kelli I Stajduhar

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Timely access to guideline-recommended cancer treatment is known to be an indicator of the quality and accessibility of a cancer care system. Yet people who are socially disadvantaged experience inequities in access to cancer treatment that have significant impacts on cancer outcomes and quality of life. Among people experiencing the intersecting impacts of poor access to the social determinants of health and personal identities typically marginalized from society (‘social disadvantage’), there are significant barriers to accessing cancer, many of which compound one another, making cancer treatment extremely difficult to access. Although some research has focused on barriers to accessing cancer treatment among people who are socially disadvantaged, it is not entirely clear what, if anything, is being done to mitigate these barriers and improve access to care. Increasingly, there is a need to design cancer treatment services and models of care that are flexible, tailored to meet the needs of patients, and innovative in reaching out to socially disadvantaged groups. In this paper, we report the protocol for a planned scoping review which aims to answer the following question: What services, models of care, or interventions have been developed to improve access to or receipt of cancer treatment for adults who are socially disadvantaged? Based on the methodological framework of Arksey and O’Malley, this scoping review is planned in six iterative stages. A comprehensive search strategy will be developed by an academic librarian. OVID Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL (using EBSCOhost) and Scopus will be searched for peer-reviewed published literature; advanced searches in Google will be done to identify relevant online grey literature reports. Descriptive and thematic analysis methods will be used to analyze extracted data. Findings will provide a better understanding of the range and nature of strategies developed to mitigate barriers to accessing cancer treatment.

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  • Tara C Horrill & Amber Bourgeois & Max Kleijberg & Janice Linton & Kate Leahy & Kelli I Stajduhar, 2024. "Services, models of care, and interventions to improve access to cancer treatment for adults who are socially disadvantaged: A scoping review protocol," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(2), pages 1-9, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0296658
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296658
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