TY - JOUR AU - Donkor, Andrew AU - Luckett, Tim AU - Aranda, Sanchia AU - Vanderpuye, Verna AU - Phillips, Jane L. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/23 TI - Development of the ‘REadiness SElf-assessment (RESEA) guide’ to assist low and middle-income countries with establishing safe and sustainable radiotherapy services: a pragmatic sequential mixed qualitative methods project JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 268 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Improving access to radiotherapy services in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) is challenging. Many LMICs’ radiotherapy initiatives fail because of multi-faceted barriers leading to significant wastage of scarce resources. Supporting LMICs to self-assess their readiness for establishing radiotherapy services will help to improve cancer outcomes by ensuring safe, effective and sustainable evidenced-based cancer care. The aim of the study was to develop practical guidance for LMICs on self-assessing their readiness to establish safe and sustainable radiotherapy services. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06274-x DO - 10.1186/s12913-021-06274-x ID - Donkor2021 ER -