Oncology Network for Comprehensive Outcomes (ONCO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Dilatra Global Publishing. Launched in 2026, this digital journal is dedicated to advancing the science and practice of supportive cancer care, oncology nursing, health systems management, and healthcare informatics.

The primary objective of ONCO is to provide an evidence-based platform that connects human care delivery, organizational reliability, and digital technology to drive measurable improvements in patient-centered cancer outcomes.

The scope of ONCO includes, but is not limited to:

1. Oncology Nursing Practice & Supportive Care: Symptom management, palliative care, psycho-oncology, and patient- and family-centered interventions.
2. Patient Outcomes & Quality of Life: Evaluation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs), and care delivery effectiveness.
3. Health Systems & Risk Management: Implementation of High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles, hospital risk taxonomy, infection prevention and control, and nursing leadership.
4. Oncology Nursing Informatics & Digital Health: Integration of Electronic Health Records (EHR), assessment of technostress and healthcare provider workload, tele-oncology implementation, and mHealth solutions.

 

Scope Boundaries (What We Publish vs. What We Do Not Publish)

To ensure a sharp scientific identity, ONCO enforces strict boundaries regarding its domain:

• In Scope: Interventions, frameworks, and evaluations centered on nursing care delivery, symptom management, patient safety, healthcare leadership, risk management, health economics/policy, and digital health/informatics within cancer care settings.
• Out of Scope (Excluded): Direct pharmacological clinical trials, novel drug development, surgical techniques, radiation biology, and basic bench-top/pre-clinical cancer biology research.

Core Research Domains & Their Relevance to Oncology

Each research domain within ONCO addresses a critical pillar of the modern cancer care continuum:

1. Advanced Oncology Nursing & Supportive Care

• Focus: Specialized nursing practice, evidence-based symptom management, toxicity monitoring, psycho-oncology, palliative care, and survivorship planning.
• Context in Oncology: While medical therapies target the tumor, oncology nursing directly addresses the human response to cancer and its treatment. High-quality nursing interventions reduce treatment-related complications, improve adherence to therapeutic regimens, and optimize patients' physical and psychological quality of life.

2. Patient-Centered Outcomes & Quality of Life (QoL)

• Focus: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs), functional restoration, and treatment burden evaluation.
• Context in Oncology: Survival rates alone no longer define success in oncology. Integrating PROMs and QoL metrics ensures that clinical success aligns with what matters most to patients—minimizing suffering, maintaining functional independence, and respecting patient preferences throughout treatment and survivorship.

3. Health Systems, Clinical Risk Management & Leadership

• Focus: High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles, hospital risk taxonomy, infection prevention and control (IPC), nursing workload, burnout, and organizational culture in cancer units.
• Context in Oncology: Cancer patients are exceptionally vulnerable to medical errors, hospital-acquired infections, and systemic delays due to complex treatment regimens and immunosuppression. Research in health systems and risk management builds safer clinical environments, mitigates workforce exhaustion, and ensures robust quality assurance in high-risk oncology environments.

4. Oncology Nursing Informatics & Digital Health

• Focus: Electronic Health Record (EHR) optimization, clinical decision support systems, tele-oncology, mobile health (mHealth) applications, digital literacy, and the evaluation of technostress among healthcare providers.
• Context in Oncology: Modern oncology relies heavily on complex data—from treatment protocols to continuous patient monitoring. Health informatics bridges the gap between raw clinical data and actionable care, reducing administrative burden, improving care coordination across multidisciplinary teams, and enabling remote symptom tracking for oncology patients.

Types of Articles Accepted

• Original Research Articles (Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed-Methods)
• Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Scoping Reviews
• Quality Improvement (QI), Clinical Practice Implementation Reports, Case Study/Reports
• Short Communications / Brief Reports
• Editorials & Letters to the Editor