Title |
Development of a survey instrument to investigate the primary care factors related to differences in cancer diagnosis between international jurisdictions
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Published in |
BMC Primary Care, June 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2296-15-122 |
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Authors |
Peter W Rose, Willie Hamilton, Kate Aldersey, Andriana Barisic, Martin Dawes, Catherine Foot, Eva Grunfeld, Nigel Hart, Richard D Neal, Marie Pirotta, Jeffrey Sisler, Hans Thulesius, Peter Vedsted, Jane Young, Greg Rubin, The ICBP Module 3 Working Group* |
Abstract |
Survival rates following a diagnosis of cancer vary between countries. The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP), a collaboration between six countries with primary care led health services, was set up in 2009 to investigate the causes of these differences. Module 3 of this collaboration hypothesised that an association exists between the readiness of primary care physicians (PCP) to investigate for cancer - the 'threshold' risk level at which they investigate or refer to a specialist for consideration of possible cancer - and survival for that cancer (lung, colorectal and ovarian). We describe the development of an international survey instrument to test this hypothesis. |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
Portugal | 1 | 1% |
Greece | 1 | 1% |
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Researcher | 14 | 20% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 17% |
Student > Master | 6 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 9% |
Other | 4 | 6% |
Other | 11 | 16% |
Unknown | 16 | 23% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 36% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 13% |
Psychology | 7 | 10% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 3% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 3% |
Other | 6 | 9% |
Unknown | 18 | 26% |