Individual Abstract within a Delegate Designed Symposium Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2022

Value of survivorship follow-up care models: what outcomes represent value? (#110)

Raymond Chan 1 , Fiona Crawford-Williams 1 , Nicolas Hart 1 , Bogda Koczwara 2 , Michael Jefford 3 , Larissa Nekhlyudov 4 , Patsy Yates 5 , Jon Emery 6 , Sanjeewa Kularatna 5 7
  1. Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  2. Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  3. Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  4. Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, United States
  5. School of Nursing and Cancer and Palliative Outcomes Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
  6. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  7. Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

There are now over 1.1 million Australians living with a diagnosis of cancer. Consistent with the Quadruple Aim - a value-based health care strategy that seeks to (1) improve the patient experience; (2) improve the health of populations; (3) reduce the cost of care; and (4) improve the provider experience, clinical and research leaders must continue to provide care, self-care and caring solutions that address these important goals for all cancer survivors and the community.

Following on from the American Institute of Medicine Report “Lost in Transition”, various frameworks have advocated for a number of quality survivorship domains of care activities and outcomes. There are a number of ways to test and evaluate outcomes of innovations in follow-up care models. However, there is less evidence and consensus in terms of what constitute “value” in these evaluative endeavours. This presentation will describe a range of methodologies including hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials, qualitative research and discrete choice experiments, and how they have been used to investigate preferences for and the value of survivorship care models.