A consolidated screening tool for supportive oncology needs and distress.

Authors

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Christine B. Weldon

Center for Business Models in Healthcare, Glencoe, IL

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

Organizations

Center for Business Models in Healthcare, Glencoe, IL, LivingWell Cancer Resource Center, Geneva, IL, Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, IL, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, JourneyCare, Barrington, IL, The John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, The Coleman Foundation, 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, 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 patients’ screening results (assessors), and providers receiving referrals (providers) were surveyed after use of the screening tool. Descriptive statistics were used to assess effectiveness of the tool. Results: Responders included 175 patients, 81 assessors, and 26 referral providers (social workers, chaplains, subspecialists). The majority of patients (160/175, 91%) completed the screening in <10 minutes, across all patients the screening tool averaged 4 ½ minutes. Most assessors (59/77, 76%) spent <5 minutes reviewing screening results. Most patients, assessors, and providers reported 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, identified unmet patient needs, and was beneficial for assessors and providers. As the tool is adopted by collaborating institutions, variability in supportive oncology screening practices may decline, thus improving patient care. The tool has implications for quality improvements and national dissemination.

QuestionPatient %, n = 175Assessor %, n = 77Provider %, n = 26
Right questions/ uncovered relevant issues for a specific patient878496
Partial relevance: some questions not important/not relevant to a specific patient49349
I have training or resources to address patient needsNA9088

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2017 ASCO Quality Care Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session B: Patient Safety and Science of Quality

Track

Patient Safety,Science of Quality

Sub Track

Preemptive Risk Reduction

Citation

J Clin Oncol 35, 2017 (suppl 8S; abstract 47)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2017.35.8_suppl.47

Abstract #

47

Poster Bd #

A15

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