Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research

Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research: The purpose of this Technical Brief was to identify: 1) frameworks that have been developed or applied to examine the effects of organizational characteristics on the delivery of and outcomes associated with cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment, and compare these frameworks to the Integrated Framework; 2) approaches used to improve understanding of how organizational context and process characteristics are described, measured, and analyzed in the context of cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment; 3) healthcare organizational context and process characteristics that have been examined in studies assessing the delivery of cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment; and 4) evidence gaps and future research needs.