Home Cancer Care Research: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis (1990–2021)

Abstract

Home cancer care research (HCCR) has accelerated, as considerable attention has been placed on reducing cancer-related health costs and enhancing cancer patients’ quality of life. Understanding the current status of HCCR can help guide future research and support informed decision-making about new home cancer care (HCC) programs. However, most current studies mainly detail the research status of certain components, while failing to explore the knowledge domain of this research field as a whole, thereby limiting the overall understanding of home cancer care. We carried out bibliometric and visualization analyses of Scopus-indexed papers related to home cancer care published between 1990–2021, and used VOSviewer scientometric software to investigate the status and provide a structural overview of the knowledge domain of HCCR (social, intellectual, and conceptual structures). Our findings demonstrate that over the last three decades, the research on home cancer care has been increasing, with a constantly expanding stream of new papers built on a solid knowledge base and applied to a wide range of research themes.

Outpatient Chemotherapy Process with Home-Based and Mobile Services: A Decision Framework and Optimization

“…Several countries, such as UK, Australia, Canada, and France have implemented successful home or MCU chemotherapy programs (Evans et al, 2016;Fhoula et al, 2022;Margier et al, 2021). HChemo has several benefits including reducing OCC congestion, providing care in the comfort of the patient's home, promoting healing, and providing more safety from infections (Touati et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2010).…”

“…o Duration of an MCU's stay at each location on a given day. Engineering and Operations Management Lisbon, Portugal, July 18-20, 2023 © IEOM Society International Moreover, readers are referred to Fhoula et al (2022) for complete knowledge mapping of home cancer care that would help them to understand and build on the existing solutions of problems in the same context.…”

“…Unlike surgery and radiotherapy, chemotherapy can be administered outside of the hospital setting (Fhoula et al, 2022). To address the challenges posed by the complexity of chemotherapy operations and corresponding time constraints, the concept of home-based chemotherapy (HChemo) and Mobile Chemotherapy Unit (MCU), also called chemo buses, has emerged.…”