Primary Care Provider Practice Patterns and Barriers to Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Low rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance are primarily due to provider-related process failures. However, few studies have evaluated primary care provider (PCP) practice patterns, attitudes, and barriers to HCC surveillance at academic tertiary care referral centers.

Methods

We conducted a web-based survey of PCPs at 2 tertiary care referral centers (133 providers) from June 2017 through December 2017. The survey was adapted from pretested surveys and included questions about practice patterns, attitudes, and barriers to HCC surveillance. We used the Fisher exact and Mann-Whitney rank-sum tests to identify factors associated with adherence to HCC surveillance recommendations, for categoric and continuous variables, respectively.

Results</

SUBMITTER: Simmons OL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7212522 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature