title: Cancer survivors' receipt of treatment summaries and implications for patient-centered communication and quality of care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Institute of Medicine recommends cancer survivors completing treatment be provided with a treatment summary to facilitate delivery of patient-centered survivorship care. However, the relationship between treatment summary receipt and patient-centered communication (PCC) and overall quality of care (QOC) are not well understood.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cancer survivors responding to the Health Information National Trends Survey reported treatment summary receipt, QOC, and experiences of six core functions of PCC. Multivariable logistic regression assessed the relationship between treatment summary receipt and PCC. The prevalence of survivors' treatment summary receipt and demographic/clinical characteristics predictive of treatment summary receipt were also assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of 359 respondents with a cancer history, 34.5% reported receiving a treatment summary. Greater treatment burden was associated with increased treatment summary receipt. Treatment summary receipt was associated with higher QOC and more PCC, both overall and for five of the six PCC functions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The receipt of cancer treatment summaries may improve PCC and QOC for survivors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The positive relationship between treatment summary receipt and survivors' PCC experience substantiates continued efforts to provide treatment summaries to survivors transitioning from active treatment to survivorship care. Future research should characterize mechanisms by which treatment summary provision may enhance PCC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Bentley University, Waltham, USA. Electronic address: danielleblanch@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blanch-Hartigan
authors.affiliation: Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, USA.
authors.forename: Neetu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chawla
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
authors.forename: Ellen I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Beckjord
authors.affiliation: Research Integration and Evaluation, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Laura P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Forsythe
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
authors.forename: Janet S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: de Moor
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
authors.forename: Bradford W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Hesse
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
authors.forename: Neeraj K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Arora
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult