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BMC Cancer (2024) 24:1108 [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-024-12862-x](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-024-12862-x)  \nBMC Cancer  \n RESEARCH Open Access  \nExploring transitions in care among patients with head and neck CANCER: a multimethod study  \nJaling Kersen1, Pamela Roach1,4,5, Shamir Chandarana2,3, Paul Ronksley1,4 and Khara Sauro1,2,3,4*  \nAbstract  \nBackground Patients with head and neck cancers (HNC) experience many transitions in care (TiC), occurring when patients are transferred between healthcare providers and/or settings. TiC can compromise patient safety, decrease patient satisfaction, and increase healthcare costs. The evidence around TiC among patients with HNCis sparse. The objective of this study was to improve our understanding of TiC among patients with HNC to identify ways to improve care.  \nMethods This multimethod study consisted of two phases: Phase I (retrospective population-based cohort study) characterized the number and type of TiC that patients with HNC experienced using deterministically linked, population-based administrative health data in Alberta, Canada (January 1, 2012, to September 1, 2020), and Phase II (qualitative descriptive study) used semi-structured interviews to explore the lived experiences of patients with HNCand their healthcare providers during TiC.  \nResults There were 3,752 patients with HNC; most were male (70 . 8%) with a mean age at diagnosis of 63.3 years (SD 13. 1) . Patients underwent an average of 1.6 (SD 0 . 7) treatments, commonly transitioning from surgery to radiotherapy (21 . 2%) . Many patients with HNC were admitted to the hospital during the study period, averaging 3.3 (SD 3. 0) hospital admissions and 7.8 (SD 12. 6) emergency department visits per patient over the study period. Visits to healthcare providers were also frequent, with the highest number of physician visits being to general practitioners (average = 70.51 per patient) . Analysis of sixteen semi-structured interviews (ten patients with HNC and six healthcare providers) revealed three themes: (1) Navigating the healthcare system including challenges with the complexity of HNC care amongst healthcare system pressures,(2) Relational head and neck cancer care which encompasses patient expectations and relationships, and (3) System and individual impact of transitions in care.  \nConclusions This study identified challenges faced by both patients with HNC and their healthcare providers amidst the frequent TiC within cancer care, which was perceived to have an impact on quality of care. These findings provide crucial insights that can inform and guide future research or the development of health interventions aiming to improve the quality ofTiC within this patient population.  \nKeywords Oncology, Otolaryngology, Canada, Care transitions, Continuity of care  \n*Correspondence: Khara Sauro kmsauro@ucalgary.ca  \nFull list of author information is available at the end of the article  \n© The Author(s) 2024. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. 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