Differences in Perceived Risk at Which Clinician and Patient Stakeholders Initiate Activities to Prevent Late Effects Among Breast Cancer Survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterize the level of probability or perceived risk that will trigger patients, physicians, nurses, or therapists to initiate clinical activities to prevent late effects, including chronic physical impairments and adverse symptoms that often occur among breast cancer (BC) survivors.

Design

Cross-sectional survey querying participants regarding the level of probability or perceived risk of a patient developing a late effect, 0%-100% visual analog scale, that would cause them to initiate activities to prevent or preemptively address late effects such as lymphedema, upper quadrant pain, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, shoulder contracture, and fatigue.

Setting

A quaternary medical center and community medical and radiation oncology clinics.

SUBMITTER: Alvarado I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7853387 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature