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CANCER CARE FOR THE WHOLE PATIENT

MEETING PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH NEEDS

Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients/Families in a Community Setting

Board on Health Care Services

Nancy E. Adler and Ann E. K. Page, Editors

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COMMITTEE ON PSYCHOSOCIAL SERVICES TO CANCER PATIENTS/FAMILIES IN A COMMUNITY SETTING

NANCY E. ADLER (Chair), Professor of Medical Psychology and Vice-Chair,

Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

RHONDA J. ROBINSON-BEALE, Chief Medical Officer,

United Behavioral Health, Van Nuys, California

DIANE S. BLUM, Executive Director,

CancerCare Inc., New York

PATRICIA A. GANZ, Professor,

UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles

SHERRY GLIED, Professor and Chair,

Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York

JESSIE GRUMAN, President,

Center for the Advancement of Health, Washington, DC

MICHAEL HOGE, Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry),

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven

JIMMIE C. HOLLAND, Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology,

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

MELISSA M. HUDSON, Director,

After Completion of Therapy Clinic, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis

SHERRIE KAPLAN, Associate Dean for Clinical Policy and Health Services Research,

University of California at Irvine School of Medicine

ALICIA K. MATTHEWS, Associate Professor,

University of Illinois, Chicago

RUTH MCCORKLE, Florence S. Wald Professor of Nursing and Director,

Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven

HAROLD ALAN PINCUS, Vice Chair,

Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and

Director of Quality and Outcomes Research,

New York-Presbyterian Hospital

LEE S. SCHWARTZBERG, Medical Director,

The West Clinic, Memphis

EDWARD H. WAGNER, Director,

Group Health Cooperative W.A. McColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation Center for Health Studies, Seattle

TERRIE WETLE, Associate Dean of Medicine for Public Health and Public Policy,

Brown Medical School, Providence

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Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the NRC’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

TERRY BADGER, College of Nursing, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

BRUCE COMPAS, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

RONALD EPSTEIN, Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health Care, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

STEWART FLEISHMAN, Cancer Supportive Services, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York: Beth Israel and St Luke’s-Roosevelt, New York

PAUL JACOBSEN, Health Outcomes and Behavior Program, Moffitt Cancer Center, and Departments of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Oncology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

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SARAH HOPE KAGAN, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WAYNE KATON, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

PAULA KIM, Translating Research Across Communities (TRAC), Fallbrook, California

BARBARA MURPHY, Hematology/Oncology Division, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

LEE NEWCOMER, United HealthCare Corporation, Edina, Minnesota

KEVIN OEFFINGER, Program for Adult Survivors of Pediatric Cancer, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

PAUL RUDOLF, Arent Fox LLP, Washington, DC

EDWARD SALSBERG, Center for Workforce Studies, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC

LIDIA SCHAPIRA, Gillette Center for Breast Cancer, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts

JOSEPH SIMONE, Simone Consulting, Atlanta, Georgia

KATHRYN SMOLINSKI, Association of Oncology Social Work, Ypsilanti, Michigan

SHELLY TAYLOR, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by JOHANNA T. DWYER, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University School of Medicine and Frances Stern Nutrition Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center and RICHARD G. FRANK, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. Appointed by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, they were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

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Foreword

Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs is an important new addition to a series of Institute of Medicine reports that prescribe actions needed to improve the quality of U.S. health care. Following in the footsteps of Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance Use Conditions, and other reports in the Quality Chasm series, this report takes another step forward and attends to the psychological/behavioral and social problems that can accompany serious illness. Although the report examines psychosocial health needs from the perspective of individuals with a diagnosis of cancer, the recommendations in this report are also relevant to clinicians, other health care providers, payors, and quality oversight organizations concerned with the care of individuals with other serious and complex medical conditions.

Research has amply demonstrated the significance of psychosocial factors to health and health care. Incorporating evidence from studies of psychological and social determinants of health, clinical research on the effectiveness of psychological and behavioral services, health services research on the effective organization and delivery of health care, and biologic research in fields such as psychoneuroimmunology, this report documents the consequences of failing to meet psychosocial health needs. Importantly, it translates scientific research findings into practical applications for improving the quality of cancer care.

The result is a new standard of care for cancer care, a standard that incorporates acknowledgement, treatment, and management of psychosocial

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problems. While this report deals specifically with cancer patients, the lesson to improve the quality of care by focusing on the psychosocial needs of the whole patient will apply as well to many other conditions.


Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD

President, Institute of Medicine

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Preface

Americans place a high premium on new technologies to solve our health care needs. However, technology alone is not enough. Health is determined not just by biological processes but by people’s emotions, behaviors, and social relationships. Sadly, these factors are often ignored or not defined as part of health care. Many doubt their importance and dismiss the evidence as being based on “soft science.” Even when acknowledged, they are often seen as ancillary rather than central to care. High and escalating health care costs fuel the argument that addressing such concerns is a luxury rather than a necessity. These views fly in the face of evidence of the important role that psychosocial factors play in disease onset and progression, not to mention their impact on people’s ability to function and maintain a positive quality of life. As this report documents, a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that psychological and social problems can prevent individuals from receiving needed health care, complying with treatment plans, and managing their illness and recovery. Another recent Institute of Medicine report1 states that the purpose of health care is to “continuously reduce the impact and burden of illness, injury, and disability, and … improve … health and functioning.” To accomplish this, good quality health care must attend to patients’ psychosocial problems and provide services to enable them to better manage their illnesses and underlying health. To ignore these factors while pouring billions of dollars into new

1

IOM. 2006. Performance measurement: Accelerating improvement. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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technologies is like spending all one’s money on the latest model car and then not having the money left to buy the gas needed to make it run.

This report examines psychosocial health services from the perspective of the more than ten and a half million individuals in the United States who live with a current or past diagnosis of cancer, and who reside in 1 of every 10 U.S. households. Not only are these patients affected by their illness, but so, too, are their families. Fortunately, new advances in treatment are transforming the nature of cancer as a disease. Increasingly individuals are prevailing against acute, life-threatening diagnoses and physically demanding (and sometimes themselves life-threatening) surgical, radiation, and drug treatments. They are joining a growing segment of the U.S. population—those with chronic illnesses. This has important implications for the organization and delivery of services and for health care costs. Although the recommendations in this report address the delivery of psychosocial health services to individuals diagnosed with cancer, the committee believes the model for care delivery developed for the report and the accompanying recommendations are applicable to the health care of all with chronic illnesses. Indeed, much of the evidence of the effectiveness of individual psychosocial health services and models of care reviewed by the committee comes from services and interventions designed for individuals with other types of chronic illnesses.

The committee found evidence that was both cautionary and encouraging. Both patients and providers tell us that attention to psychosocial health needs is the exception rather than the rule in oncology practice today. We noted with dismay the many recommendations over the years calling for more attention to psychosocial concerns on which there has been no action. However, there are forces at play currently that could facilitate change as a result of this report. First, the patient care tools, approaches, and resources needed to deliver effective services for those in need are already sufficiently (though not ideally) developed. Today, every individual treated for cancer can (and should) expect to have their psychological and social needs addressed alongside their physical needs. Second, this report provides an ingredient essential to all successful change initiatives—a shared vision toward which all involved parties can direct and coordinate their efforts. This report puts forth such a vision in a standard of care articulating how psychosocial health services should be routinely incorporated into oncology care. This multidisciplinary standard can provide a common framework around which clinicians, health care organizations, patients and their advocates, payers, quality oversight organizations, and all concerned about the quality of cancer care can organize and coordinate their efforts and achieve synergy.

Finally, successful change initiatives also are characterized by their strong leadership. The United States is fortunate to have strong individual

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and organizational leaders who have done much to advance the quality of cancer care. This leadership is a powerful resource for change, and can do much to make the delivery of psychosocial health services a routine part of cancer care. To engage these parties in advancing the standard of care for psychosocial health services, the committee has put forth a small number of recommendations (10 in all), each targeted to key leadership—clinical leaders, advocacy organizations, health plans and purchasers, quality oversight organizations, and sponsors of research. The committee hopes that all of these leaders will join in making this new standard of care the norm—and better the health care and health of our brothers, sisters, parents, children, and ourselves—for the more than 40 percent of all Americans who will receive a diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime.


Nancy E. Adler

Chair

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Acknowledgments

The Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients/Families in a Community Setting thanks the many individuals and organizations who helped with its search for effective psychosocial health services and models for their effective delivery, and provided key information on the health care workforce and a number of policy issues. We gratefully acknowledge Carol L. Alter, MD, at the TEN Project and Georgetown University; M. Brownell Anderson, Robert Eaglen, PhD, and Robby Reynolds at the Association of American Medical Colleges; Neeraj K. Arora, PhD, at the National Cancer Institute; Terry Badger, PhD, RN, FAAN, at the University of Arizona College of Nursing; Cynthia Belar, Diane M. Pedulla, JD, Kimberley Moore, and Wendy Williams at the American Psychological Association; Thomas P. Beresford, MD, at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Joyce Bichler, ACSW, of Gilda’s Club Worldwide; Elise J. Bolda, PhD, of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Partnerships for Older Adults program at the University of Southern Maine; Cheryl Bradley, MSW, and Carson J. Pattillo, MPH, at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; William S. Breitbart, MD, and Andrew J. Roth, MD, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; E. Dale Collins, MD, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center; Lisa Corchado and Rebecca Yowell at the American Psychiatric Association; Bridget Culhane, RN, MN, MS, CAE, and Gail A. Mallory, PhD, RN, CNAA, at the Oncology Nursing Society; Charles Darby at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Kim Day at the Board of Oncology Social Work Certification; Stephen DeMers, EdD, at the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards; Molla S. Donaldson, DrPH, MS, at the American Society of

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Clinical Oncology; Patricia Doykos Duquette, PhD, at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation; Peter D. Eisenberg, MD, at California Cancer Care; Ronit Elk, PhD, Katherine Sharpe, Nancy Single, PhD, Michael Stefanek, PhD, and Marcia W. Watts, at the American Cancer Society; Stewart Fleishman, MD, at Continuum Cancer Centers of New York: Beth Israel and St Luke’s-Roosevelt; Barbara Fleming, MD, Paulette Mehta, MD, Thakor G. Patel, MD, MACP, and Shakaib Rehman, MD, FACP, at the Veterans Health Administration; Bill Given at the Charles and Barbara Given Family Care Program, Michigan State University; Mitch Golant, PhD, at The Wellness Community; Marcia Grant, RN, DNSc, FAAN, and Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN, at the City of Hope National Medical Center; Ethan Gray and Kathryn M. Smolinski, MSW, at the Association of Oncology Social Work; David Gustafson at the University of Wisconsin; Karmen Hanson, MA, at the National Conference of State Legislatures; John E. Hennessy, Nancy Washburn, Sandy Simmons, MSN, ARNP-C, AOCN, and Barbara Adkins, MS, ARNP-BC, AOCNP, at Kansas City Cancer Center; Joanne Hilden, MD, at St. Vincent Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, Beverly Lange, MD, at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Missy Layfield, Chair of the Patient Advocacy Committee, all of the Children’s Oncology Group; Caroline Huffman, LCSW, MEd, at the Lance Armstrong Foundation; Frits Huyse, MD, PhD, at the University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands; Paul B. Jacobsen, PhD, Nancy W. Newman, LCSW, and Donna M. Cosenzo at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute; Barbara L. Jones, PhD, MSW, at the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers; Nancy Kane, at the Payson Center for Cancer Care; Ernest Katz, Aura Kuperberg, Kathleen Meeske, PhD, Kathleen S. Ruccione, MPH, RN, FAAN, and Octavio Zavala, at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Anne E. Kazak, PhD, ABPP, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Emmett B. Keeler, PhD, at the RAND Corporation; Murray Kopelow, MD, at the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education; Wolfgang Linden, PhD, at the University of British Columbia, Canada; Karen Llanos at the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.; Kate Lorig, RN, DrPH, at Stanford University; Matthew J. Loscalzo, MSW, at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center; Richard P. McQuellon, PhD, at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center; Stephen Miller, MD, at the American Board of Medical Specialties; Moira A. Mulhern, PhD, at Kansas City Turning Point; Todd Peterson at the American Nurse Credentialing Center; Gail Pfeiffer, RHIA, CCS-P, at the Cleveland Clinic; William Pirl, MD, at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Paul A. Poniatowski at the American Board of Internal Medicine; Craig Ravesloot, PhD, at the University of Montana; Christopher J. Recklitis, PhD, MPH, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Karen Robitaille at Yale University School of Medicine; Sarah Rosenbloom, PhD, at Northwestern University Feinberg

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School of Medicine; Thomas J. Smith, MD, at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center; Joan Stanley at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; Annette Stanton, PhD, at the University of California, Los Angeles; James Stockman, MD, and Jean Robillard, MD, at the American Board of Pediatrics; Ellen L. Stovall of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship; Bonnie Strickland at the Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas B. Strouse, MD, FAPM, DFAPA, at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center; Phyllis Torda at the National Committee for Quality Assurance; Douglas Tynan, PhD, at the American Board of Professional Psychology; Ginny Vaitones at the Board of Oncology Social Work Certification; Garry Welch, PhD, at Baystate Medical Center; Pamela R. West, PT, DPT, MPH, at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Nancy Whitelaw at the National Council on Aging; Rodger Winn at the National Quality Forum; and James R. Zabora, PhD, of the National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic University of America.

In addition, we thank M. Robin DiMatteo, Kelly B. Haskard, and Summer L. Williams, all at the University of California, Riverside, and Sheldon Cohen and Denise Janicki-Deverts, both at Carnegie Mellon University, for their papers, respectively, on “Effects of Distressed Psychological States on Adherence and Health Behavior Change: Cognitive, Motivational, and Social Factors” and “Stress and Disease.” These excellent papers helped the committee think through and quickly review a growing body of evidence documenting the health effects of psychological and social stressors.

We also offer many thanks to Maria Hewitt, DrPH, formerly with the National Cancer Policy Board at the Institute of Medicine, for her generous help throughout the initial stages of this study. Rona Briere of Briere Associates, Inc., provided expert copy editing, and Alisa Decatur excellent proofreading and manuscript preparation assistance. And as always, Danitza Valdivia, administrative assistant to the Board on Health Care Services, provided ever-ready and gracious assistance regardless of the task or timeline.

Finally, we thank our project officers at the National Institutes of Health. Susan D. Solomon, PhD, senior advisor in the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and project officer at the beginning of this study, skillfully launched the study and shaped its parameters. Julia H. Rowland, PhD, director of the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Survivorship, served as project officer for the duration of the study, and provided ongoing support, thoughtful and expert guidance, and generous assistance in identifying and securing needed resources.

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Tables, Figures, and Boxes

TABLES

S-1

 

Psychosocial Needs and Formal Services to Address Them,

 

10

3-1

 

Psychosocial Needs and Formal Services to Address Them,

 

82

3-2

 

Selected Nationwide Sources of Free Patient Information on Cancer and Cancer-Related Services,

 

109

3-3

 

Selected Psychosocial Services (Other Than Information) Available at No Cost to Individuals/Families with Cancer,

 

118

4-1

 

Models for Delivering Psychosocial Health Services and Their Common Components,

 

155

4-2

 

Comparison of Needs Assessment Instruments,

 

174

4-3

 

Comparison of Domain Item Distribution Across Needs Assessment Instruments,

 

188

5-1

 

Distribution of Adult Ambulatory Cancer Care Visits by Site of Visit, Physician Specialty, and Clinic Type, United States, 2001–2002,

 

221

6-1

 

Examples of Policy Support for Interventions to Deliver Psychosocial Health Care,

 

244

6-2

 

Psychologist Claims Paid by Medicare, 2003–2005, by Type of Intervention, and Comparison 2005 Claims Paid for All Provider Types,

 

253

6-3

 

Some Availability of Psychosocial Services in Health and Human Services Sectors and from Informal Supports,

 

262

6-4

 

Performance Measures of Psychosocial Health Care Adopted/Endorsed by Leading Performance Measurement Initiatives as of July 2007,

 

271

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7-1

 

Estimates of the Supply of Selected Physician Types Available to Provide or Ensure the Provision of Psychosocial Health Services,

 

285

7-2

 

Estimates of the U.S. Supply of Selected Nonphysician Providers Available to Provide or Ensure the Provision of Psychosocial Health Services,

 

286

B-1

 

Serial Search Strategies,

 

362

B-2

 

Psychosocial Needs and Formal Services to Address Them,

 

364

C-1

 

Recommendations Addressing Psychosocial Services,

 

379

C-2

 

Other Recommendations of Potential Relevance,

 

394

FIGURES

S-1

 

Model for the delivery of psychosocial health services,

 

8

1-1

 

Cancer care trajectories,

 

25

4-1

 

Model for the delivery of psychosocial health services,

 

158

BOXES

5-1

 

A Letter to My Patients,

 

231

5-2

 

Example of Patient Handout on Sources of Help in Managing Cancer and Its Treatment,

 

233

5-3

 

Patient Comments on the Usefulness of CancerCare’s Telephone Education Workshops,

 

234

6-1

 

Medicare Care Coordination Demonstration Projects,

 

259

7-1

 

LCME Undergraduate Medical Education Accreditation Standards That Address Psychosocial Health Services,

 

290

7-2

 

General Principles of Gender, Ethnic, and Behavioral Considerations for USMLE Step 1,

 

292

7-3

 

General Competencies of the ACGME Outcome Project,

 

293

7-4

 

Selected NLNAC Core Competencies Addressing Psychosocial Health Services,

 

298

7-5

 

Selected Core Competencies from The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education,

 

299

7-6

 

Selected C-Change Psychosocial Core Competencies,

 

314

B-1

 

Key Factors Associated with Successful Dissemination and Adoption of Innovations,

 

368

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Cancer care today often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems associated with the illness. This failure can compromise the effectiveness of health care and thereby adversely affect the health of cancer patients. Psychological and social problems created or exacerbated by cancer—including depression and other emotional problems; lack of information or skills needed to manage the illness; lack of transportation or other resources; and disruptions in work, school, and family life—cause additional suffering, weaken adherence to prescribed treatments, and threaten patients' return to health.

Today, it is not possible to deliver high-quality cancer care without using existing approaches, tools, and resources to address patients' psychosocial health needs. All patients with cancer and their families should expect and receive cancer care that ensures the provision of appropriate psychosocial health services.

Cancer Care for the Whole Patient recommends actions that oncology providers, health policy makers, educators, health insurers, health planners, researchers and research sponsors, and consumer advocates should undertake to ensure that this standard is met.

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