A consolidated screening tool for supportive oncology needs and distress.

Authors

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Amy Scheu

Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, IL

Amy Scheu, Lauren Allison Wiebe, Shelly S. Lo, Catherine Deamant, Betty Roggenkamp, Urjeet Patel, Pam Khosla, Patricia A. Robinson, Frank J. Penedo, James Gerhart, William Dale, Ana Gordon, Rajul Kothari, Rosa Berardi, Julia Rachel Trosman, Christine B. Weldon, Teresa Lillis

Organizations

Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, IL, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, JourneyCare, Barrington, IL, Center for Business Models in Healthcare, Chicago, IL, The John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, The Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, IL, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Chicago Hospital, Chicago, IL, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, ID, The Coleman Foundation, Chicago, IL, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Research Funding

Other Foundation

Background: The IOM 2013 Report recommends that supportive oncology care start at cancer diagnosis; the Commission on Cancer (CoC) standard 3.2 requires distress screening and indicated action. Screening tools are not standardized across institutions and often address only a portion of patients’ supportive oncology needs. Methods: A collaborative of 100+ clinicians, funded by The Coleman Foundation, developed a patient-centric consolidated screening tool based on validated instruments (NCCN Distress Problem List, PHQ-4, PROMIS) and IOM and CoC. The screening tool was piloted at 6 practice improvement cancer centers in the Chicago area (3 academic, 2 safety-net, 1 public). Patients, providers assessing each patient’s screening results (assessors), and providers receiving referrals (referral providers) were surveyed after each use of the screening tool. Descriptive statistics were used to assess effectiveness of the tool. Results: Responders included 29 patients, 81 assessors and 26 referral providers (SW, chaplain, subspecialist). The majority of patients (22/29, 75%) completed the screening in < 10 minutes without assistance and will complete at every visit. Most assessors (59/77, 76%) spent < 5 minutes reviewing screening results. The majority of patients, assessors, and referral providers reported that the screening tool asked the “right questions”. Assessors reporting partial relevance of some screening questions for 34% (26/77) of patients, uncovered ≥ 1 relevant needs for 96% (25/26) of those patients (p = 0.002). Conclusions: Use of a consolidated supportive oncology screening tool across multiple institutions is feasible, discovered unmet patient needs, and was beneficial for assessors and providers. As the tool is adopted by collaborating institutions, variations in supportive oncology screening may decline, thus improving access to supportive oncology care with implications for national dissemination.

QuestionPatient %, n = 29Assessor %, n = 77Referral provider %, n = 26
Right questions / uncovered relevant issues for a specific patient868496
Partial relevance: some questions not important / not relevant to a specific patient48349
I have training or resources to address patient needsNA9088

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2016 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A

Track

Evaluation and Assessment of Patient Symptoms and Quality of Life,Integration and Delivery of Palliative Care in Cancer Care

Sub Track

Evaluation methods/approaches

Citation

J Clin Oncol 34, 2016 (suppl 26S; abstr 72)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2016.34.26_suppl.72

Abstract #

72

Poster Bd #

B7

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