Table 1.
Characteristics of respondents, respondents’ organizations, and survivorship care plan (SCP) implementation
| Characteristics | % |
|---|---|
| Respondent’s role in SCP use (n = 394) | |
| Identify survivors who are eligible to receive SCPs | 72.3 |
| Develop SCPs | 66.0 |
| Create and/or revise SCP templates | 62.7 |
| Save SCPs | 53.6 |
| Deliver SCPs to cancer survivors | 53.6 |
| Deliver SCPs to survivors’ follow-up care providers | 48.2 |
| Update SCPs | 36.5 |
| Refer survivors to receive SCPs | 28.4 |
| None of the above | 0.0 |
| Respondent’s current position (n = 394) | |
| Nurse Navigator | 44.2 |
| Registered Nurse | 29.9 |
| Oncology Nurse Practitioner | 9.6 |
| Cancer registry staff | 3.8 |
| Patient Navigator (not a nurse or social worker) | 3.3 |
| Social Worker | 3.3 |
| Nurse Practitioner (not oncology-based) | 2.8 |
| Health Educator | 2.0 |
| Oncologist (physician) | 1.5 |
| Physician other than oncologist | 1.5 |
| Oncology Physician Assistant | 1.3 |
| Physician Assistant (not oncology-based) | 0.8 |
| Medical Director | 0.0 |
| Other | 22.1 |
| Decline to respond | 1.3 |
| Annual incident cancers [median (range)] (n = 292) | 700 (1-8000) |
| Cancer program type (n = 292) | |
| Community hospital comprehensive | 45.5 |
| Community hospital | 27.4 |
| Affiliate | 12.7 |
| Hospital associate | 11.3 |
| Teaching hospital | 10.6 |
| Freestanding | 7.9 |
| National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive | 5.5 |
| National Cancer Institute-designated | 4.1 |
| Integrated | 2.7 |
| Network | 2.1 |
| Pediatric | 1.7 |
| National Cancer Institute-designated cancer network | 1.4 |
| Veterans Affairs | 1.4 |
| Pediatric cancer program component | 0.7 |
| Don’t know | 1.7 |
| Decline to respond | 0.7 |
| Organization Membership (n = 292) | |
| American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer | 80.8 |
| Association of Community Cancer Centers | 38.4 |
| American Society for Clinical Oncology Quality Oncology Practice Initiative | 36.3 |
| National Comprehensive Cancer Network | 26.0 |
| NCI Community Cancer Centers Program | 5.8 |
| LIVESTRONG Foundation (formerly Lance Armstrong Foundation) | 3.8 |
| National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship | 3.1 |
| Don’t know | 12.0 |
| Decline to respond | 2.4 |
| Tumor groups for which SCPs are used (n = 394) | |
| Breast | 85.0 |
| Colon or rectal (including anal) | 58.6 |
| Lung | 53.3 |
| Prostate | 43.4 |
| Head and neck | 42.1 |
| Endometrial | 32.2 |
| Ovarian | 31.2 |
| Lymphoma (Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin) | 31.0 |
| Testicular | 25.1 |
| Kidney | 24.1 |
| Melanoma | 23.9 |
| Thyroid | 20.1 |
| Brain | 18.5 |
| Myeloma | 14.0 |
| Leukemia | 12.2 |
| Clinical trials patients | 6.6 |
| Other | 7.6 |
| Don’t know | 1.0 |
| Decline to respond | 1.3 |
| Organizational system for identifying survivors (n = 257) | |
| Non-automated system | 45.9 |
| No system | 44.4 |
| Automated system | 4.7 |
| Other | 12.5 |
| Decline to respond | 0.8 |
| Process for determining eligibility (n = 257) | |
| On a case-by-case basis | 73.2 |
| Patient receives care in a particular tumor group | 23.0 |
| Other | 21.0 |
| Don’t know | 0.4 |
| Decline to respond | 0.8 |