Table A2.

Survivorship Care Plans Provided Additional Information and Reassurance to Primary Care Providers

Themes	Sample Quotes
Information on patient's cancer history	“It did [provide additional information], almost always, because records here are inadequate, plus many patients were treated outside UCLA.” “A lot of times I didn't know that they had surgery or they had radiation. I don't necessarily know all the detail of the cancer type, because the patients don't typically know that. So I thought that was a really nice summary not necessarily for me per say, but for the medical record. Should she or he ever have diagnosis again we would know in very details, in one single place … the pathology, the treatment history, the radiation history … and who were the prior treating physicians; that was nice for me.”
Information on recommendations for follow-up	“He is a Hodgkin's survivor … he needed an ultrasound for his carotid because of the radiation, and I would have never gotten that. I would have never occurred to me … Oh, another one required a cardiac echo … and I would not have known that, and it was because of the chemotherapy she received … ”
Recommendations assisted PCP with efficient time management	“The recommendations were new. So, I mean, I know where to find them. I know the websites to get them. But it would literally take me not even hours—I mean— it would take me days to ferret through for one patient … ” “The fact that all the data had been collected and organized … [allowed me to] pay much more closer attention to the assessment and plan … [the SCP] helps me … as a reminder in the future, “ding ding ding, when this patient walks in: remember! Here's your little road map' So, I think in that way it helped me focus more on analyzing the patient as opposed to having to collect a lot of data, because it was all put together, which I felt was very, very helpful.”
SCP provided reassurance and confirmation	“One of the things for us as primary care doctors is that these sorts of reports can really serve as a learning process, so you would expect that by the time you get the tenth or eleventh one, it may not surprise you–you'd probably know what you're supposed to do. But, yet it's still incredibly useful to have the summary of the treatment and also to have the oncologist really sign off on “yes, this patient gets sort of the standard thing that you've learned how to do' or “there's some special element that you need to consider.'” “I wouldn't get rid of it … I would keep it because it confirms … “Oh that's what I'm doing, I did do that' versus if there was something here and I was like-“oh I'm not doing that'-then that's good because it's nice to know that. But, on the other hand it's also nice to be reassured.”

Abbreviations: PCP, primary care provider; SCP, survivorship care plan.