Exploring barriers to radiotherapy utilization and developing a patient reported tool to measure the inconvenience associated with accessing and utilising radiotherapy services

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1055380

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding how much inconvenience patients will accept in order to gain an outcome benefit radiotherapy (RT), may help understand & improve access to RT, influence doctors� attitudes on referring for RT & enhance shared decision making. RT related choices are important to all patients but likely to be particularly relevant to those from rural & remote areas. This research will explore perceptions of RT & develop a tool to measure RT-related inconvenience.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships

Funding Amount: $.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Radiation Therapy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cancer treatment | health service accessibility | health service utilisation | outcome measures | quality of life | radiotherapy

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