Elements for assistance to patients with hematological malignancies to propose care lines: a scoping review.
Mayane Cleisla Dos Santos Rocha, Valéria Dantas de Azevedo, Maria de Fátima Lucena Dos Santos and 3 others
PMID 36753254WHAT IT FOUND
Mapped hematological cancer care elements span diagnosis, treatment, supportive care, palliative care and post-treatment care.
They show what nursing care lines may include, not proof that any component works.
Key findings
01The scoping review mapped elements for assistance to patients with hematological malignancies from 93 included studies.
02The mapped elements covered diagnosis, treatment, supportive care, palliative care and post-treatment care.
03The included studies most often addressed treatment (50 studies) and diagnosis (15 studies); high-complexity care was reported in 65 studies and medium-complexity care in 49 studies.
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What it does not show
This scoping review mapped elements from studies, so it does not test whether any care element improves outcomes. All included studies were in English, so non-English work was not represented. No studies from Africa were represented, and most included studies came from the United States and European countries. Full-text articles that could not be accessed were excluded, which may have omitted relevant publications.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the mapped elements as proof that a care line or any listed treatment improves outcomes. This scoping review identified elements from published studies, not tested interventions.