Cancer care at home or in local health centres versus in hospital: Public policy goals and patients’ preferences in the Rhône-Alps region in France

In France, cancer treatments are mainly provided in hospitals, which are expensive and crowded. Health decision-makers therefore want to develop alternative structures such as home care and local health centres. OBJECTIVES: To elicit cancer patients' preferences for home, local health centre, or hospital, and analyze factors affecting these choices: patients' characteristics, experiences of care, expectations and perceptions of cancer …