Anticipatory Guidance: Developing a Patient Navigation Pathway to Reduce the Financial Toxicity of Cancer
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Abstract
Background: Healthcare providers have an influential role in the experience of financial toxicity among their cancer patients, yet patients commonly report unmet needs and dissatisfaction regarding communication with their providers about financial concerns.
Aims: The purpose of this study is to develop a novel financial navigation pathway that leverages existing patient financial services and resources with corresponding patient-centered, community-informed strategies, via study participants, that may be utilized in routine care to reduce financial hardship among cancer patients.
Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews (n=50) with 34 cancer patients and 16 cancer care professionals at a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer center located in a dense urban area of the US between December 2022 to June 2023.
Results: Content analyses resulted in emergent themes and representative quotations on experiences of financial hardship within the material, behavioral, and psychosocial domains. Investigators used emergent themes to develop financial strategies and construct a financial navigation pathway to screen patients for and intervene upon the financial toxicity of cancer in routine care.
Conclusion: This study followed an innovative approach by constructing a financial navigation pathway tool that follows the oncological workflow at a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer center. Future research is needed to test the tool’s impact on financial toxicity, cancer outcomes, and other health-related outcomes, and to better understand how much patient navigation is needed to bring about meaningful change.
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CHEUNG, PHD, MSW, Christabel K. et al.
Anticipatory Guidance: Developing a Patient Navigation Pathway to Reduce the Financial Toxicity of Cancer.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 10, oct. 2023.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/4582>. Date accessed: 21 nov. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i10.4582.
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16. Delgado-Guay M, Ferrer J, Rieber AG, et al. Financial distress and its associations with physical and emotional symptoms and quality of life among advanced cancer patients. The Oncologist. 2015;20(9):1092-1098. doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2015-0026
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21. Mitchell AJ, Hussain N, Grainger L, Symonds P. Identification of patient-reported distress by clinical nurse specialists in routine oncology practice: a multicentre UK study. Psychooncology. 2011;20(10):1076-1083. doi:10.1002/pon.1815
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27. Hastert TA, Young GS, Pennell ML, et al. Financial burden among older, long‐term cancer survivors: Results from the LILAC study. Cancer Med. 2018;7(9):4261-4272. doi:10.1002/cam4.1671
28. Imber BS, Varghese M, Ehdaie B, Gorovets D. Financial toxicity associated with treatment of localized prostate cancer. Nat Rev Urol. 2020;17(1):28-40. doi:10.1038/s41585-019-0258-3
29. Kent EE, Forsythe LP, Yabroff KR, et al. Are survivors who report cancer-related financial problems more likely to forgo or delay medical care? Cancer. 2013; 119(20):3710-3717. doi:10.1002/cncr.28262
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31. Tucker-Seeley RD, Thorpe RJ Jr. Material–psychosocial–behavioral aspects of financial hardship: A conceptual model for cancer prevention. The Gerontologist. 2019;59(Supplement_1):S88-S93. doi:10.1093/geront/gnz033
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33. Donabedian A. Evaluating the quality of medical care. Milbank Mem Fund Q. 1966;44(3):166-206. doi:10.2307/3348969
34. Donabedian A. The quality of care: How can it be assessed? JAMA. 1988;260(12): 1743-1748. doi:10.1001/jama.1988.03410120089033
35. Donabedian A. Evaluating the quality of medical care. Milbank Q. 2005;83(4):691-729. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00397.x
36. Peterson K, Anderson J, Bourne D, et al. Health care coordination theoretical frameworks: A systematic scoping review to increase their understanding and use in practice. J Gen Intern Med. 2019;34(1):90-98. doi:10.1007/s11606-019-04966-z
37. Tossaint-Schoenmakers R, Versluis A, Chavannes N, Talboom-Kamp E, Kasteleyn M. The challenge of integrating ehealth into health care: Systematic literature review of the Donabedian model of structure, process, and outcome. J Med Internet Res. 2021;23(5):e27180. doi:10.2196/27180
38. Creswell JW. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches, 2nd Ed. Sage Publications, Inc; 2007:xvii, 395.
39. Gale NK, Heath G, Cameron E, Rashid S, Redwood S. Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2013;13:117. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-13-117
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https://www.nccn.org/docs/default-source/patient-resources/nccn_distress_thermometer.pdf
42. de Souza JA, Yap BJ, Hlubocky FJ, et al. The development of a financial toxicity patient-reported outcome in cancer: The COST measure. Cancer. 2014;120(20):3245-3253. doi:10.1002/cncr.28814
43. Pirl WF, Fann JR, Greer JA, et al. Recommendations for the implementation of distress screening programs in cancer centers: Report from the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS), Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW), and Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) joint task force. Cancer. 2014;120(19):2946-2954. doi:10.1002/cncr.28750
44. Pizarro DMP, Francia MBI, Ordinario MVC. Diagnostic accuracy of the NCCN distress thermometer for the assessment of psychosocial distress among Filipino patients with cancer. Acta Med Philipp. 2022;56(12). doi:10.47895/amp.vi0.3463
45. Alanazi AK, Lynch-Kelly D, Weaver M, Lyon DE. A scoping review of psychological distress instruments in women with early-stage breast cancer during chemotherapy. Cancer Rep. 2023;6(6):e1833. doi:10.1002/cnr2.1833
46. McElroy JA, Waindim F, Weston K, Wilson G. A systematic review of the translation and validation methods used for the national comprehensive cancer network distress thermometer in non-English speaking countries. Psychooncology. 2022;31(8):1267-1274. doi:10.1002/pon.5989
47. Pavela G, Fifolt M, Tison S, Allison M, Burton B, Ford E. Re-validation of the Comprehensive Score for financial Toxicity (COST): Assessing the scale’s utility in chronic disease populations. Health Serv Insights. 2021;14. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/11786329211057352
48. D’Rummo KA, Nganga D, Chollet-Hinton L, Shen X. Comparison of two validated instruments to measure financial hardship in cancer survivors: comprehensive score for financial toxicity (COST) versus personal financial wellness (PFW) scale. Support Care Cancer. 2022;31(1):12.
doi:10.1007/s00520-022-07455-y
49. Dee EC, Chino F. Financial hardship in cancer care—The need to define and intervene on actionable metrics. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(7):e2223149. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.23149
50. Ver Hoeve ES, Ali-Akbarian L, Price SN, Lothfi NM, Hamann HA. Patient-reported financial toxicity, quality of life, and health behaviors in insured US cancer survivors. Support Care Cancer Off J Multinatl Assoc Support Care Cancer. 2021;29(1):349-358. doi:10.1007/s00520-020-05468-z
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