The experience of being a neutropenic cancer patient in an acute care isolation room: a qualitative systematic review.

Abstract

Objectives The primary objective of this review is to establish an understanding of the experience of adult neutropenic patients with cancer being care for in an isolation room. The specific questions are: 1. What is the experience of the adult neutropenic patients with cancer being nursed in the isolation room? 2. What are the coping strategies used by these patients during isolation? Criteria for considering studies for this review Types of participants The participants of interest are adult neutropenic patients of any age above 18 years with cancer require protective isolation nursing care. Studies focus on the experiences of children, patients’ caregivers or families’ will be excluded from the review. Research on patients in source isolation will also be excluded from the review. Types of phenomena of interest The phenomenon of interest is the experience of adult patients who require nursing care in protective isolation due to neutropenia induced by chemotherapy or haematopoietic stem cell transplant. Types of outcome measures The outcome of interest is patients’ self reported experiences