Multidisciplinary management of patients with cancer in France: The SINPATIC qualitative study.

Background: 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).

Objective(s): To explore how patients, GPs, oncologists and nurses interacted and how they perceived, in their practice, professional roles, collaboration, and cancer care pathways.

Methods: Between January 2018 and December 2021, 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.

Interprofessional follow-up of patients with cancer in France (the SINPATIC study): a preliminary, qualitative study of the patient's perspective.

Background: In 2020, 19.2 million people were diagnosed with cancer, and nearly 10 million cancer patients died worldwide. An effective cancer care pathway must be based on coordination, multidisciplinarity, a personalized approach, and collaboration between stakeholders.

Interprofessional collaboration in primary health care: a review of facilitators and barriers perceived by involved actors.

Background: The epidemiological transition calls for redefining the roles of the various professionals involved in primary health care towards greater collaboration. We aimed to identify facilitators of, and barriers to, interprofessional collaboration in primary health care as perceived by the actors involved, other than nurses.

Methods: Systematic review using synthetic thematic analysis of qualitative research.

[Linking: relationships between health professionals in the informal health networks].

Background: During the last years, the french health system has been developing formal health networks. So, it was necessary to study informal health networks as <> networks. More precisely, we studied the nature of relationships between various stakeholders around general practionners wich are commonly considering as the <> stakeholder of the health system private sector.