School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand.
BMJ Open Qual. 2024 Feb 22;13(1):e002602. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002602.
Palliative care is an approach that aims to holistically improve the quality of life, care and death of people living with life-limiting conditions as well as their families. In Thailand, palliative care became one of its national strategies as of 2014. However, the access to as well as the quality of palliative care being delivered still varies across the nation, due to multiple factors spanning multiple levels. Consequently, there is a need to comprehensively understand the current palliative care ecosystem in Thailand. This review aims to explore, map and conceptualise the literature available on the palliative care ecosystem in Thailand, and how the service being delivered influences the quality of life, death and care of people living with life-limiting conditions alongside their families.
This review will consist of two stages. First, a scoping review guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews will be initially conducted. A systematic literature search using Medical Subject Heading and text words related to palliative care will be performed in PubMed, CINAHL and Thai Citation Index from 2013 to 2023. Grey literature will be searched via alternative sources: Google keyword searching and stakeholders consultation. References of included sources will be handsearched to identify further resources.The population, concept and context framework is used to frame the inclusion and exclusion criteria. This will be further refined after the initial search, reflecting the iterative nature of a scoping review. Articles will be independently screened by three reviewers. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet will be used as the data extraction tool. Data will be extracted and presented using a narrative synthesis approach.Second, included articles from the scoping review will be further analysed and visualised using a bibliometric analysis technique. This stage involves a computational method, including statistical analysis and content analysis of the articles' bibliographic details.
This paper describes a protocol for a scoping review and bibliographical analysis. As such, ethical approval was not required. Information relating to the review will be stored with Open Science Framework Registries. The findings of this proposed scoping review will be distributed through a peer-reviewed publication, academic seminars, conferences and patients and public involvement groups.
姑息治疗是一种方法，旨在全面提高患有绝症的患者及其家属的生活质量、护理和死亡质量。自 2014 年以来，姑息治疗已成为泰国的国家战略之一。然而，由于跨越多个层面的多种因素，全国提供的姑息治疗的可及性和质量仍然存在差异。因此，需要全面了解泰国目前的姑息治疗生态系统。本综述旨在探索、描绘和概念化泰国姑息治疗生态系统的现有文献，以及所提供的服务如何影响患有绝症的患者及其家属的生活质量、死亡和护理。
本综述将包括两个阶段。首先，将按照乔安娜·布里格斯研究所（Joanna Briggs Institute）的综述方法进行范围界定综述。将使用 PubMed、CINAHL 和泰国引文索引从 2013 年至 2023 年进行系统文献检索，使用与姑息治疗相关的医学主题词和文本词。将通过替代来源（Google 关键字搜索和利益相关者咨询）搜索灰色文献。将对纳入来源的参考文献进行手工搜索，以确定其他资源。将使用人口、概念和背景框架来框定纳入和排除标准。这将在初始搜索后进一步细化，反映出范围界定综述的迭代性质。文章将由三名评审员独立筛选。将使用 Microsoft Excel 电子表格作为数据提取工具。将使用叙述性综合方法提取和呈现数据。
其次，将对范围界定综述中的纳入文章进行进一步分析，并使用文献计量分析技术进行可视化处理。这一阶段涉及一种计算方法，包括对文章书目详细信息进行统计分析和内容分析。
本文描述了一项范围界定综述和文献计量分析的方案。因此，不需要伦理批准。与审查相关的信息将存储在开放科学框架登记册中。本拟议范围界定综述的结果将通过同行评议的出版物、学术研讨会、会议以及患者和公众参与团体进行传播。
