Table 1.

Characteristics of Providers and Use of Guidelines for Surveillance for Cancer Recurrence and Survivorship Care, 2019 Porter Novelli DocStyles Survey

	Total (n = 1421)		Providers Using Surveillance Guidelines (n = 1116)*	Providers Using Guidelines for Comprehensive Survivorship Care (n = 878)*	Providers Using Neither Type of Guideline, “non-users” (n = 254)
	n	%	%, P value^†	%, P value^†	%, P value^†
Total			78.5	61.8	17.9
Gender			P = .369	P = .635	P = .279
Man	847	59.6	77.5	62.6	19.1
Woman	574	40.4	80.1	60.6	16.0
Age group (years)			P = .028	P = .310	P = .044
<40	305	21.5	85.6	67.2	12.1
40–49	461	32.4	76.6	60.1	20.2
50–64	547	38.5	76.1	60.3	19.7
65+	108	7.6	79.6	61.1	14.8
Race/ethnicity			P = .710	P = .286	P = .843
Hispanic or Latino	63	4.4	81.0	68.3	19.1
White (non-Hispanic)	961	67.6	77.2	59.6	18.7
Black/African American	46	3.2	82.6	69.6	13.0
Asian/Pacific Islander	291	20.5	81.1	66.3	15.8
Other (American Indian/Alaska Native, multiracial, other)	60	4.2	81.7	61.7	16.7
Number of survivors seen per week			P = .279	P = .031	P = .419
<1	312	22.0	75.3	57.7	19.6
1–15	831	58.5	79.4	61.6	17.5
16–30	209	14.7	77.0	62.7	19.6
31+	69	4.9	87.0	79.7	10.1
Provider type			P = .001	P = .055	P = .001
Family physician	401	28.2	78.3	61.1	18.7
Internist	563	39.6	72.3	62.7	22.6
OBGYN	239	16.8	91.2	54.8	7.5
Nurse practitioner	122	8.6	81.2	73.0	13.9
Physician assistant	96	6.8	81.3	62.5	17.7
Region			P = .867	P = .720	P = .934
Northeast	353	24.8	76.8	63.2	18.7
Midwest	302	21.3	78.8	58.6	16.9
South	479	33.7	79.5	61.6	18.2
West	287	20.2	78.8	63.8	17.4
Years in practice			P = .302	P = .482	P = .482
3 to 9	288	20.3	83.3	63.9	14.9
10 to 19	522	36.7	77.8	62.8	17.8
20 to 29	403	28.4	76.9	58.1	20.4
30+	208	14.6	76.9	63.5	17.3
Privileges at a teaching hospital			P = .105	P = .279	P = .185
Yes	698	49.1	80.8	63.8	16.1
No	723	50.9	76.4	59.9	19.6
Financial status of patients			P = .846	P = .039	P = .843
Poor (Less than $25,000)	96	6.8	75.0	54.2	20.8
Lower middle ($25,000 – $49,999)	348	24.5	80.2	58.3	18.4
Middle ($50,000–$99,999)	589	41.5	78.1	60.4	18.2
Upper middle ($100,000 – $249,999)	272	19.1	77.6	69.5	17.3
Affluent ($250,000 or more)	116	8.2	81.0	67.2	13.8
Work setting			P = .934	P = .722	P = .867
Individual outpatient	286	20.1	77.6	62.9	18.2
Group outpatient	922	64.9	78.4	60.9	17.5
Inpatient practice	213	15.0	78.9	64.3	19.3
Refer to survivorship care plan			P = .001	P = .001	P = .001
Always/often	374	26.3	73.3	48.9	23.3
Sometimes	481	33.9	85.0	73.8	10.6
Rarely/never	313	22.0	91.1	80.5	7.7
Not applicable	253	17.8	58.5	34.8	36.4
Received survivorship care training			P = .001	P = .001	P = .001
Yes	247	17.4	91.9	84.6	4.9
No	1037	73.0	75.7	56.8	20.4
Don't know/not sure	137	9.6	75.9	58.4	21.9

*Providers who used guidelines for surveillance of cancer recurrence are not mutually exclusive from providers who reported using comprehensive cancer survivorship care guidelines.
P values compare providers using each guideline category to providers who reported not using them (data not shown).
^†P values adjusted for false discovery rate.