Prevalence of Delayed or Forgone Care Due to Patient-Clinician Identity Discordance Among US Cancer Survivors

Vishal R Patel; Arjun Gupta; Anne H Blaes; Karen M Winkfield; Alex B Haynes; S M Qasim Hussaini

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.0242

Prevalence of Delayed or Forgone Care Due to Patient-Clinician Identity Discordance Among US Cancer Survivors

JAMA Oncol. 2023 May 1;9(5):719-722. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.0242.

Authors

Vishal R Patel¹, Arjun Gupta², Anne H Blaes², Karen M Winkfield³, Alex B Haynes¹, S M Qasim Hussaini⁴

Affiliations

¹ Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin.
² Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
³ Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁴ Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This case-control study assesses the prevalence of patient-reported delayed or forgone care due to patient-clinician identity discordance among cancer survivors and factors associated with this barrier to care.

MeSH terms

Cancer Survivors*
Health Care Surveys
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Neoplasms* / epidemiology
Neoplasms* / therapy
Prevalence