Using Canadian administrative data to evaluate primary and oncology care of breast cancer patients post-treatment: Subset of the CanIMPACT Study.

Authors

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Mary L McBride

BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Mary L McBride , Patti Groome , Donna Turner , Margaret Jorgensen , Cynthia Kendell , Geoff Porter , Li Jiang , Monika Krzyzanowska , Aisha Lofters , Rahim Moineddin , Eva Grunfeld , Marcy Winget

Organizations

BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, Cancer Care Manitoba, Winnepeg, MB, Canada, University of Dalhousie, Halifax, NS, Canada, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: CanIMPACT is a multi-provincial Canadian research team funded to identify and address key issues faced by cancer patients and providers at the intersection of primary and specialist oncology care. Canada has national healthcare standards, but provincial/territorial healthcare delivery systems. One facet will use administrative data from the population-based, publicly-funded healthcare system to evaluate issues during pre-diagnosis, treatment, and post-treatment survivorship for breast cancer patients. For the survivorship phase, we aim to conduct the following analyses and compare across provinces: 1) Utilization of physician services overall and by specialty, including oncologists, non-oncology specialists, and primary care; 2) Assessment of adherence to ASCO and Canadian follow-up guideline for breast cancer care, use of surveillance breast imaging, and metastatic investigations; 3) Assessment of adherence to recommended care of chronic illness and preventive care; 4) Quantification of the cost of follow-up overall and by specialty; 5) Comparison of inter- and intra-provincial variation for all outcomes by health administrative region and for vulnerable groups (age ≥ 75 at diagnosis, northern/rural/remote, low income, immigrants), and examine the effect of continuity of primary care and chronic disease on post-treatment care. Methods: Patients will be identified from provincial cancer registries and linked to data extracted from: outpatient physician service claims, hospital inpatient and outpatient data, and cancer facility medical records. Results: Participating provinces have finalized the core questions and detailed protocols, and assessed data comparability. They are in the process of obtaining the required ethics and data access approvals, and data acquisition for processing and analysis. Conclusions: Results will address existing information gaps that can be used to improve transition and care across the cancer care trajectory. Importantly, results will be combined with those of a CanIMPACT qualitative study to inform design of a pragmatic randomized trial focused on improving coordination and quality of care.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2016 Cancer Survivorship Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A

Track

Care Coordination and Financial Implications,Communication,Late- and Long-term Effects/Comorbidities,Health Promotion,Psychosocial Issues,Recurrence and Secondary Malignancies

Sub Track

Chronic Care Management

Citation

J Clin Oncol 34, 2016 (suppl 3S; abstr 5)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2016.34.3_suppl.5

Abstract #

5

Poster Bd #

B5

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