Incorporating geriatric patient reported outcomes into novel screening tool of distress and supportive care concerns.

Authors

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Christine B. Weldon

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Christine B. Weldon , Joanna Martin , Amy Scheu , Paramjeet Khosla , Betty Roggenkamp , Rosa Berardi , Selina Lai-ming Chow , Julia Rachel Trosman , Mary Pasquinelli , Lawrence Eric Feldman , William Dale , Sean O'Mahony , James Gerhart , Patricia B. Mumby , Ana Gordon , Lauren Allison Wiebe , Catherine Deamant

Organizations

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, IL, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL, Center for Business Models in Healthcare, Chicago, IL, Coleman Foundation, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, University of Illinois at Chicago Cancer Center, Chicago, IL, CIY, Chicago, IL, Rush University, Chicago, IL, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, JourneyCare, Chicago, IL

Research Funding

Other Foundation

Background: The Institute of Medicine (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. The Supportive Oncology Collaborative, collaborative of 100+ clinicians funded by The Coleman Foundation, developed a patient-centric screening tool (CSOC-ST) adapted from ASCO Distress, NCCN Distress Problem List, IOM report and CoC standards, and other validated sub-tools (Weldon, ASCO-Q 2017). The Collaborative then revised the CSOC-ST tool to align with geriatric guidelines. Methods: Literature and guidelines review of geriatric screening, added items to CSOC-ST, and piloted at 4 sites. Descriptive statistics and Fisher’s exact test used. Results: 473 patients screened with added geriatric relevant items to CSOC-ST: self-care concerns (PROMIS Instrumental Support), living alone (ASCO Distress 2014), and memory / cognition (PROMIS item bank). Treatment/care concern items were revised to identify interest in health care power of attorney and advance directives. Geriatric related items endorsed by patients, see Table. PHQ4, Anxiety and Depression, average score 2.4 (mild > 3). Higher scores on the PHQ-4 were significantly associated with each of the following: self-care concerns, memory/cognition concerns and specific treatment/care concerns (p < .0001). Conclusions: Pilot results and comparison to geriatric guidelines identified important items to support geriatric patient reported outcomes screening. After pilot, added 3 items for falls/frailty. Eight sites implementing this CSOC-ST.

Screening ItemFrequency
n = 473
I want help letting my family, friends and team know my medical wishes if unable to do so myself [health care power of attorney]38%
I want help discussing, with my family and friends, my treatment options and what is important to me [advance directives]36%
I have difficulty concentrating, difficulty remembering things, and/or difficulty finding the words I want to say35%
Are you concerned about having someone available to help: if you cannot get out of bed, you feel sick and cannot do daily chores, and/or you cannot run errands?31%
I live alone26%

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2018 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Patient and Survivor Care

Track

Patient and Survivor Care

Sub Track

Palliative Care and Symptom Management

Citation

J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl; abstr 10115)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.10115

Abstract #

10115

Poster Bd #

103

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