A support nurse may strengthen the participation of patients with low socio-economic status in treatment pathways of head and neck cancer: A theory-based evaluation.

Aim: To test and evaluate a support nurse intervention within the head and neck cancer (HNC) pathway.

Background: Even though interventions aiming to support patients with a low socio-economic status have been a focus for development and implementation in several countries, research still shows that these patients often have unmet needs and encounter challenges in communicating with health professionals during their treatment pathways. Furthermore, support interventions are few in Denmark and none of the existing interventions target patients with HNC receiving radiation therapy of whom the majority have a low socio-economic status and therefore potentially carry a high risk of being challenged during their treatment pathways.

Obstacles for patients with a low socio-economic status treated within the head and neck cancer pathway: A multiple case study.

Aims And Objectives: Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork exploring various head and neck cancer treatment pathways of patients with low socio-economic status being treated with radiation therapy in Denmark, our aim was to explore how and why inequality in this treatment pathway might occur in the encounter between these patients and Danish healthcare.

Background: In recent years, inequality in cancer treatment of patients with a low socio-economic status has been a growing concern worldwide. The majority of patients with head and neck cancer have a relatively low socio-economic status and are at risk of experiencing inequality in their cancer treatment.

A critical discourse analysis of the influence of organisational structures on inequality in head and neck cancer treatment in Denmark.

Background: Concern is growing about inequality in cancer treatment, and a call has been made for more knowledge of the underlying causes of this inequality. Studies show that patients with low socioeconomic status in general face a greater risk of inequality than patients with a high socioeconomic status.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to uncover how institutional factors may exacerbate inequality in cancer treatment for patients with low socioeconomic status exemplified by patients with head and neck cancer, most of whom have low socioeconomic status.

Nurses' articulations of the patients' role when the vision is partnership: A qualitative study.

Although principles such as 'patient participation' and 'patient involvement' have become ideals in health-care, they have proven to be difficult to apply in practice. In 2014, one Danish region issued an official document that included the vision of 'the patient as partner'. However, little is known about how such a vision affects clinical practice.