Table A1.
Characteristics of Primary Care Providers and Survivorship Care Plans
| Characteristic | Participant PCPs (n = 15) |
Nonparticipant PCPs (n = 17) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | |
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 9 | 60 | 9 | 53 |
| Male | 6 | 40 | 8 | 47 |
| Age, years | ||||
| Average | 48.1 | Not available | ||
| Range | 39-62 | |||
| Time elapsed since PCP graduated from medical school, years* | ||||
| Average | 21.9 | 26.4 | ||
| Range | 6-36 | 5-46 | ||
| Specialty† | ||||
| Internist | 10 | 66.6 | 13 | 76.5 |
| Family physician | 5 | 33.3 | 3 | 17.6 |
| Pediatricians | 1 | 0.07 | 1 | 5.9 |
| No. of SCPs sent to each PCP before the interview | ||||
| Average | 2 | 1.7 | ||
| Range | 1-10 | 1-9 | ||
| Total No. of SCPs sent to all PCPs | 30 | 29 | ||
| No. of SCPs sent stratified by cancer diagnosis | ||||
| Breast cancer | 22 | 73.3 | 15 | 51.7 |
| Other cancers‡ | 8 | 26.7 | 14 | 48.3 |
| SCP length, No. of typewritten pages | ||||
| Average | 5.3 | 5.9 | ||
| Range | 3-7 | 4-9 | ||
| Time elapsed since SCP was sent to PCP until study conducted, months‖ | ||||
| Average | 18.7 | 12.6 | ||
| Range | 2.3-34.1 | 1-35.5 | ||
Abbreviations: PCP, primary care provider; SCP, survivorship care plan.
*
Time elapsed was calculated by subtracting the year of medical school graduation from 2009.
†
Totals are exceeded because one of the 10 internists specialized in both internal medicine and pediatrics.
‡
Other types of cancer included hematologic malignancies (leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma), ovarian, thyroid, synovial sarcoma, appendix, kidney, prostate, and neuroblastoma.
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Because all interviews were conducted between September and November 2009, we used October 30 as the study period for both the participant and nonparticipant PCPs.