The roles and competences of healthcare professionals in interprofessional collaboration in breast cancer treatment and care: a scoping review.

Project summary

The roles and competences of healthcare professionals in interprofessional collaboration in breast cancer treatment and care: a scoping review.

Mona Øynes¹, Kjersti Straume² and Eija Metsälä³

1. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
2. Haukeland University Hospital
3. Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

 

Background: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women worldwide. The treatment pathway of breast cancer is complex, involving several health care professionals.

Purpose: The purpose of this review was to explore what is known in the literature about roles and competences of healthcare professionals in breast cancer treatment and care. The healthcare professionals of interest were biomedical laboratory scientists, nurses, radiographers, and radiotherapists.

Methods: The 5-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley was followed, and the search strategy was structured using the Participant-Concept-Context framework.  An extensive search in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ERIC, PsychInfo, Cochrane Library, Scopus and Web of Science was performed. Forty studies were included, and thematic analysis of the data were performed.

Results: The findings were organised under the following three categories: 1) roles, 2) competences and 3) multiprofessional/interprofessional way of working.

Conclusion: There is a need for newer research about roles and competences of the healthcare professionals of interest, especially among the biomedical laboratory scientists, radiographers, and radiotherapists.

Keywords: Breast Neoplasms, Delivery of Health Care, Health Personnel, Laboratory Personnel

Funding: ERASMUS+ funds the Ebreast II project, who conducted this review.

The review is assumed to be published in a peer review scientific journal before the FHS research conference.

Method

Methods: The 5-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley will be followed, and the search strategy and inclusion criteria will be structured using the Participant-Concept-Context framework.  An extended search in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ERIC, PsychInfo and Web of Science will be performed. Sources of grey literature will also be searched. Three reviewers will  independently reviewed the titles and abstracts for inclusion.  Full text screening for inclusion and data charting will also be performed independently by three reviewers. A pre-defined charting form will be used for the data charting. Disagreements between the reviewers will be solved by consensus.