Table 5.
Specialty making the suggestion for task ownership (left-hand column) by times a particular “owner” was suggested (table body). Numbers bolded and underlined indicate the number of a given specialty who felt their specialty could own the stage. Participants were not limited to one choice for each stage, so total numbers exceed the total number in our sample (n=20).
| Owners suggested for stage 1: Initiate tumor screen | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty making the suggestion: | Medical Geneticist | Genetic Counselor | GI surgeon | Gastro-enterologist | Oncologist | Pathologist | PCP |
| Medical Geneticists | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Genetic Counselors | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Gastroenterologists | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Oncologists | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Pathologists | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| PCPs | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Total | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 1 |
| Owners suggested for stage 2: Return results | |||||||
| Specialty making the suggestion: | Medical Geneticist | Genetic Counselor | GI surgeon | Gastro-enterologist | Oncologist | Pathologist | PCP |
| Medical Geneticists | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Genetic Counselors | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Gastroenterologists | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oncologists | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Pathologists | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| PCPs | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 11 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 2 |
| Owners suggested for stage 3: Patient follow-up | |||||||
| Specialty making the suggestion: | Medical Geneticist | Genetic Counselor | GI surgeon | Gastro-enterologist | Oncologist | Pathologist | PCP |
| Medical Geneticists | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Genetic Counselors | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Gastroenterologists | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oncologists | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Pathologists | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| PCPs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 8 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 17 |