Driving Distance and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors.

ABSTRACT: Long driving distances to transplantation centers may impede access to care for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) survivors. As a secondary analysis from the multicenter INSPIRE study (NCT01602211), we examined baseline data from relapse-free HCT adult survivors (2 to 10 years after allogeneic or autologous HCT) to investigate the association between driving distances and patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures of distress and physical function. We analyzed predictors of elevated distress and impaired physical function using logistic regression models that operationalized driving distance first as a continuous variable and separately as a dichotomous variable (<100 versus 100+ miles). Of 1136 patients available for analysis from 6 US centers, median driving distance was 82 miles and

SUBMITTER: Banerjee R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7414780 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature