Increasing Cardiomyopathy Screening in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Cost Analysis of Advanced Practice Nurse Phone Counseling.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose/objectives

To document the per survivor and per additional survivor screening costs of a mailed survivorship care plan (SCP) with advanced practice nurse (APN) telephone counseling (SCP+C) or without APN telephone counseling (SCP).
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Design

Randomized, longitudinal clinical trial.
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Setting

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Sample

411 at-risk pediatric cancer survivors (aged 26-59 years), stratified by age (younger than 30 years versus 30 years or older), recommended screening frequency (every one, two, or five years), gender, and cancer diagnosis (hematologic versus solid tumor).
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Methods

Clinical and resource data costs were derived from trial data and external estimates.
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Main research variables

The cost-e

SUBMITTER: Cox CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8925883 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature