ConferenceAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · May 1, 2025
AbstractRationale: Lung cancer screening (LCS) uptake in the United States remains low with substantial economic and racial disparities in LCS rates, even among centralized LCS programs like that within t ...
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ConferenceInnovation in Aging · December 31, 2024
AbstractOlder Veterans aged 65+ account for roughly one-half of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare users. Comprised of more than 170 medical facilities, VA promotes programs to support function and independenc ...
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ConferenceJ Rural Health · June 2023
PURPOSE: Rural Veterans are more likely than urban Veterans to qualify for community care (Veterans Health Administration [VHA]-paid care delivered outside of VHA) due to wait times ≥30 days and longer travel times for VHA care. For rural Veterans receivin ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · June 1, 2023
e13684 Background: Many Veterans lack local access to specialized cancer services. When timely VA care is not accessible, the VA covers the cost of care provided in a Veteran’s community. This benefit disrupts integrated care del ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021
10017 Background: Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities are documented in outcomes for childhood cancer survivors. Understanding whether childhood cancer modifies established disparities in cardiovascular risk factors (CV ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · September 20, 2019
29 Background: Efforts to improve cancer care delivery have been driven by two approaches: quality improvement (QI) and implementation science (IS). QI and IS have developed independently but have potential for synergy. To inform ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2018
30 Background: Survivorship care plans (SCPs) are individualized documents that summarize cancer treatment received and provide guidelines for monitoring and maintaining survivors’ health. While SCPs are intended to facilitate ca ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2018
4 Background: The growing number of colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors often have multiple chronic conditions. Comparing CRC survivors and matched non-cancer controls, our objectives were to determine the odds of CRC survivors bei ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2017
10062 Background: Head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors experience significant sequelae of treatment, including long-term physical side effects and ongoing surveillance for recurrence and secondary malignancy. Given the complicate ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 10, 2017
129 Background: Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are well established in oncology trials but are not collected systematically during clinical care, to guide symptom management, or to assess quality. A growing body of evide ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2016
292 Background: Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a major concern for cancer patients and, if uncontrolled, it can have serious implications for patients’ treatment outcomes, including quality of life. Guidelines ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2016
266 Background: The global cancer burden has increasingly shifted to low and middle-income countries and is particularly pronounced in Africa. However, there remains a lack of comprehensive information about cancer incidence due ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 20, 2016
e267 Background: Our objective was to evaluate VA CRC incidence and survival and compare with the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data. Methods: Data were obtained from VACCR for vet ...
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ConferenceClin Rheumatol · August 2015
There is limited understanding of how comorbid health conditions affect osteoarthritis (OA)-related outcomes. This study examined associations of different comorbidity measures with baseline OA-related patient-reported outcomes (PROs) among patients with h ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · November 1, 2013
2 Background: Little is known about the association between patient-oncologist discussion of cancer treatment out-of-pocket (OOP) cost and medication adherence, a critical component of quality cancer care. Methods: We conducted a ...
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