An integrative approach to personalized cancer survivorship care at an academic medical center.

Abstract

37 Background: Quality cancer survivorship care has multiple missions 1) develop personalized disease-specific treatment summaries (TS) and evidence-based survivorship plans (SPs), 2) foster recognition amongst Primary Care Providers (PCPs) of the consequences of cancer and its therapy, 3) coordinate care amongst providers, 4) use technology to foster communication and mining data, 5) train residents/fellows, 6) determine knowledge gaps for research, 7) engage community health providers, 8) publicize and raise funds, and 9) develop metrics to assess outcomes. Here we describe initial steps toward these goals. Methods: The University of Rochester Judy DiMarzo Cancer Survivorship program is a multidisciplinary effort across 7 centers involving oncologists, PCPs, social workers, integrated oncology, legal/financial services, and survivors. Survivors are identified at two critical time points: after (1) completion of primary curative therapy = transition visit, (2) discontinuation of routine oncologic follow-up and transition of care to their PCP = shared care visit. These visits are staffed within each cancer discipline. Trainees (15-20/year) probe existing evidence and draft TS/SP templates that are vetted by that cancer discipline. Patient needs are surveyed; institutional and community resources are identified. Results: In 3 years, 1037 patients had survivorship visits - 859 transition visits, 178 shared care visits. Cancers include breast (31%), head & neck (17%), lymphoma (15%), GI (15%), GU (11%), GYN (7%), lung (3%), melanoma and sarcoma (1%) with continuing refinement of systematic patient identification. Visits by year were: 120 in 2013, 266 in 2014, and 470 in 2015. Amongst the 1037 patients, the 6 most common needs were exercise, emotional, return to work, nutrition, financial, and pain. Conclusions: Our program is systematically embracing challenges to deliver evidence-based, individualized TS/SPs for survivors, as well as train future oncology providers in survivorship care. Current areas of focus are better engaging PCPs, ensuring program sustainability, improving technology use to mine data, measuring outcomes, establishing rural outreach, and fostering survivorship research.