Re-engineering Survivorship Care Plans to Support Primary Care Needs and Workflow: Results From an Engineering, Primary Care and Oncology Collaborative for Survivorship Health (EPOCH).

ABSTRACT: Maintaining the health of survivors requires communication, collaboration and care coordination between oncology and primary care. Primary care clinicians have been acknowledged as important recipients of survivorship care plans (SCPs); however, current SCP templates have not been evaluated for usefulness in the primary care context. We surveyed and interviewed primary care clinicians from a rural research network regarding SCP content, format and layout (phase 1), and potential use and clinical workflows around SCPs (phase 2). Based on these data, an existing SCP template was iteratively redesigned to better support survivorship care in the primary care setting. A total of 13 clinicians (9 MDs, 4 APPs) participated. Interviewees advocated for maintaining a single SCP document shared by su

SUBMITTER: Tevaarwerk AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8546004 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature