Oncology Clinicians' Challenges to Providing Palliative Cancer Care-A Theoretical Domains Framework, Pan-Cancer System Survey.

Despite the known benefits, healthcare systems struggle to provide early, integrated palliative care (PC) for advanced cancer patients. Understanding the barriers to providing PC from the perspective of oncology clinicians is an important first step in improving care. A 33-item online survey was emailed to all oncology clinicians working with all cancer types in Alberta, Canada, from November 2017 to January 2018.