Increasing cardiomyopathy screening in at-risk adult survivors of pediatric malignancies: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether the addition of advanced-practice nurse (APN) telephone counseling to a printed survivorship care plan (SCP) significantly increases the proportion of at-risk survivors who complete cardiomyopathy screening.

Patients and methods

Survivors age ≥ 25 years participating in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study who received cardiotoxic therapy and reported no history of cardiomyopathy screening in the previous 5 years were eligible for enrollment. The 472 participants (mean age, 40.1 years; range, 25.0 to 59.0; 53.3% women) were randomly assigned to either standard care, consisting of an SCP summarizing cancer treatment and cardiac health screening recommendations (n = 234), or standard care plus two APN telephone counseling sessions (n = 238). The pri

SUBMITTER: Hudson MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4251960 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature