de Souza interprofessional practice cancer competency framework.

Purpose: As the demand in cancer care continues to increase, health systems require a workforce of highly educated specialists and generalists to provide continuity of care across settings.

Objectives: Led by de Souza Institute in Canada, an interdisciplinary working group was formed to develop a competency framework with relevance across regulated health professionals involved in cancer care.

Methods: The working group was presented with results from a scoping review of national and international guidelines, standards, and competencies in oncology, as well as data from needs assessments on continuing education opportunities and oncology topics most relevant to clinicians.

What is "the patient perspective" in patient engagement programs? Implicit logics and parallels to feminist theories.

Public and patient involvement (PPI) in health care may refer to many different processes, ranging from participating in decision-making about one's own care to participating in health services research, health policy development, or organizational reforms. Across these many forms of public and patient involvement, the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings remain poorly articulated. Instead, most public and patient involvement programs rely on policy initiatives as their conceptual frameworks.

Qualitative Study: Exploring the Experiences of Family Caregivers within an Inpatient Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital Setting.

The aim of this study was to further understanding of what it means for family caregivers to be included in their relatives' care and identify what type of care they are providing. This study used a qualitative research design to recruit 12 participants, who were family caregivers, from the adult neurology and neurosurgery units at a hospital located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The data were collected using semistructured interviews, which were conducted in person and ranged between 30 and 60 minutes in length.

Disparities in cancer care: perspectives from the front line.

Objective: The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how frontline healthcare professionals witness and understand disparity in cancer care.

Method: Six healthcare providers from a range of care settings, none with < 15 years of frontline experience, engaged with researchers in an iterative process of identifying and reflecting on equity and disparity in cancer care. This knowledge exchange began with formal interviews.

"Below their notice": exploring women's subjective experiences of cancer system exclusion.

Background: The experiences that marginalized breast cancer populations have in common are rarely considered.

Methods: The authors look across 3 qualitative studies to explore the experiences of older, lower-income, and Aboriginal women diagnosed with cancer and treated by the cancer care system in Ontario, Canada.

Results: The research examines critical moments in participants' narratives that parallel one another and are categorized within 2 themes: Not Getting Cancer Care and Not Getting Supportive Care.