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ReviewHealth systems (Basingstoke, England)2019

Operational research techniques applied throughout cancer care services: a review.

Christina E Saville, Honora K Smith, Katarzyna Bijak

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Review in Health systems (Basingstoke, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A System Dynamics Simulation Applied to Healthcare: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  4. Operations Management Interventions in Cancer Care Delivery in LMICs: The Way Forward.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christina E SavilleMathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7718-5689
Honora K SmithMathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4974-3011
Katarzyna BijakSouthampton Business School, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is a disease affecting increasing numbers of people. In the UK, the proportion of people affected by cancer is projected to increase from 1 in 3 in 1992, to nearly 1 in 2 by 2020. Health services to tackle cancer can be grouped broadly into prevention, diagnosis, staging, and treatment. We review examples of Operational Research (OR) papers addressing decisions encountered in each of these areas. In conclusion, we find many examples of OR research on screening strategies, as well as on treatment planning and scheduling. On the other hand, our search strategy uncovered comparatively few examples of OR models applied to reducing cancer risks, optimising diagnostic procedures, and staging. Improvements to cancer care services have been made as a result of successful OR modelling. There is potential for closer working with clinicians to enable the impact of other OR studies to be of greater benefit to cancer sufferers.

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cancerHealthcareoperational researchreview

Identifiers

PMID31214354
PMCPMC6507866

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