Anna Cabanes, Co-Founder of Onconecta, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“We say cancer care should be person-centred. But are we actually measuring what matters to patients – or just what’s easy to count?
Our scoping review looked at 345 studies on person-centred (PC) care in low- and middle-income countries. Only 20 focused on cancer.
- Patient satisfaction dominated the research – but patient rights, care coordination, and culturally responsive services? Barely evaluated.
- Only 41% of studies used validated measurement tools.
- Structural and systemic drivers of PC care – the things that actually shape whether care feels human – were almost entirely absent from the evidence base.
We’re bringing these findings to a live webinar – and we want the conversation to go beyond the data.”
Title: Patient-centred care: a scoping review of measures of patient centredness in healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Authors: Anna Cabanes, Cindy Sun, Diksha Thakkar, Carolyn Taylor, Phuong Thao Le
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