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Self-management education interventions for patients with cancer: A systematic review

Findings
  • Supporting technical documents that are health systems-relevant
    Not usually available for this document type
  • Full-text report
    Full-text report
  • Scientific Abstract
    PubMed
  • Scientific Abstract
    Publisher
Recency, quality and context of the findings
  • Last year literature searched
    2015
  • Year Published
    2017
  • Quality Rating
    7/10 (AMSTAR rating from McMaster Health Forum)
  • Countries in which studies (included in the synthesis) were conducted
    United States (21); Ghana (3); Norway (3); Australia (2); Denmark (2); Netherlands (2); United Kingdom (2); China (1); France (1); Korea (Republic of) (1); Sweden (1); Hong Kong (1); Taiwan (1); United Kingdom (1); Viet Nam (1)
  • Global/regional focus
    Not yet available
  • Country focus
  • Low - and middle-income country (LMIC) focus
    At least one LMIC/Global South study included
Additional details about the research
  • Type of document
    Evidence syntheses of effects
  • Type of question
    Effectiveness
  • Focus
    Specific
  • Priority Area
    Not applicable
  • Health system topic(s)
    Delivery arrangements
    By whom care is provided
    Self-management
    Implementation strategies
    Consumer-targeted strategy
    Information or education provision
    Skills and competencies development
  • Theme
  • Domain
    Diseases
    Non-communicable diseases
    Cancer
Publication details
  • Citation
    Howell D, Harth T, Brown J, Bennett C, Boyko S. Self-management education interventions for patients with cancer: A systematic review. Support Care Cancer. 2017;25(4):1323-1355.
  • DOI
    10.1007/s00520-016-3500-z

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