Individual and neighborhood-level factors associated with disruptions in patients with gynecologic cancers undergoing radiation treatment.

Authors

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Emily Claire MacArthur

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Emily Claire MacArthur , Allison Froehlich , Stephanie L. Wethington , Anne Rositch , Sydney Santos , Dana Lewis , James Stuart Ferriss , Anna Beavis

Organizations

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Disparities in cancer health outcomes are driven in part by social determinants of health (SDOH). Health-related social needs (HSRN) are downstream modifiable manifestations of SDOH. It is critical to identify patients with HRSN who may benefit from early intervention to improve health outcomes. Methods: We identified all patients who received radiation treatment (RT) for gynecologic cancer at an urban, academic center from January 2021-August 2023 and completed HRSN screening. HRSN screening queries patients on food, housing, transportation, and financial insecurity as well as help reading hospital materials. We extracted demographic and clinical data, self-reported HRSNs, and separately screened each chart for additional evidence of transportation insecurity. We extracted area deprivation index (ADI), a measure of neighborhood level socioeconomic disadvantage, based on home address. Any RT disruption was the primary outcome. We compared patients with and without any RT disruption using Fisher’s exact tests. Univariate Poisson regression was used to examine the magnitudes of association between individual and neighborhood level factors and RT disruption. Results: A total of 127 patients met inclusion criteria. Median age was 62 (interquartile range 25%-75%: 53-71). Most (54%, n=69) patients were White, 32% were Black (n=41), and 14% were another race (n=17). Sixteen percent (n=20) reported at least one HRSN. Six percent of patients (n=8) resided in neighborhoods in the 81st-100th percentile ADI. A total of 26% (n=33) of patients had any RT disruption, and these patients differed on individual and neighborhood factors (Table). Patients with public insurance were 2.4 times as likely to have RT disruption compared to those with private insurance (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.4-4.2). Self-reporting at least one HRSN was associated with a 2.3 times higher risk of RT disruption (95% CI: 1.31-4.11). Chart-derived evidence of transportation insecurity was associated with a 2.6 times higher risk (95%CI: 1.5-5.6) of RT disruption. Residing in a neighborhood with an ADI above the 80%ile was associated with a 3.3 times higher risk (95% CI: 2.0-5.5) of disruption. Conclusions: A variety of measures of SDOH both at the individual and neighborhood-level were associated with RT disruptions. While we did not have the power to perform multivariate analyses, our results suggest the ADI – which can be readily obtained from a patient’s home address – could help identify those patients most at risk of disruption to care.

Social Needs Identification Method No Disruption (%) Disruption (%) p
Insurance Type
Private insurance
non-private Insurance

72(81%)
22 (56%)

16 (18%)
17 (43%)
0.004
National ADI
<80%
Top 80%ile

91 (77%)
2 (25%)

27 (23%)
6 (75%)
0.004
Any Social Needs
None
At least 1

84 (79%)
10 (50%)

23 (22%)
10 (50%)
0.012

No
Yes

82 (80%)
12 (48%)

20 (20%)
13 (52%)
0.002

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2024 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Care Delivery/Models of Care

Track

Care Delivery and Quality Care

Sub Track

Disparities in Care

Citation

J Clin Oncol 42, 2024 (suppl 16; abstr e13713)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.e13713

Abstract #

e13713

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