Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Moscova laura. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author s or with their consent. Health policymakers have tried to improve the care pathway for cancer patients by improving collaboration between participating healthcare professionals by involving the general practitioner GP.
To explore how patients, GPs, oncologists and nurses interacted and how they perceived, in their practice, professional roles, collaboration, and cancer care pathways.
Between January and December , we conducted a qualitative study that combined phenomenology and a general inductive analysis, based on semi-structured interviews with cancer patients and their GPs, oncologists, and nurses in France. Our analysis of 59 interviews showed that the stakeholders had different perceptions of the cancer care pathway. Outside the hospital, GPs and nurses worked in isolation; they were not aware of the other stakeholders and did not communicate with them.
GPs and nurses justified this attitude by the lack of a perceived need. Interprofessional communication varied as a function of the needs, involvement and knowledge of the other health professionals and was often mediated by the patient. In the cancer management in France, to improve cancer care pathway, there is a need to train healthcare professionals in interprofessional collaboration delivering care tailored to patient needs and preferences.
Keywords: Cancer, primary care, care coordination, care pathways, qualitative research. In the management of patients with cancer, the division of tasks between health professionals was not clear and was not discussed by the group. In the management of patients with cancer, the division of tasks between stakeholders was not clear and was not discussed by the group. Healthcare systems in general and primary care organisations in particular are changing in response to demographic and epidemiologic challenges [ 1 , 2 ].
