Spatial Analysis of Adherence to Treatment Guidelines for Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer and the Impact of Race and Socioeconomic Status

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Gynecol Oncol
• Personal Author:
  Bristow, Robert E. ; Chang, Jenny ; Ziogas, Argyrios ; Anton-Culver, Hoda ; Vieira, Veronica M.
• Description:
  OBJECTIVE
  
  To determine the impact of geographic location on advanced-stage ovarian cancer care adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines in relation to race and socioeconomic status (SES).
  
  METHODS
  
  Patients diagnosed with Stage IIIC/IV epithelial ovarian cancer (1/1/96-12/31/06) were identified from the California Cancer Registry. Generalized additive models were created to assess the effect of spatial distributions of geographic location, proximity to a high-volume hospital (≥20 cases/year), distance travelled to receive care, race, and SES on adherence to NCCN guidelines, with simultaneous smoothing of geographic location and adjustment for confounding variables. Disparities in geographic predictors of treatment adherence were analyzed with the χ2 test for equality of proportions.
  
  RESULTS
  
  Of the 11,770 patients identified, 45.4% were treated according to NCCN guidelines. Black race (OR=1.49, 95%CI=1.21-1.83), low-SES (OR=1.46, 95%CI=1.24-1.72), and geographic location ≥80km/50mi from a high-volume hospital (OR=1.88, 95%CI=1.61-2.19) were independently associated with an increased risk of non-adherent care, while high-volume hospital treatment (OR=0.59, 95%CI=0.53-0.66) and travel distance to receive care ≥32km/20mi (OR=0.80, 95%CI=0.69-0.92) were independently protective. SES was inversely associated with location ≥80km/50mi from a high-volume hospital, ranging from 6.3% (high-SES) to 33.0% (low-SES) (p<0.0001). White patients were significantly more likely to travel ≥32km/20mi to receive care (21.8%) compared to Blacks (14.4%), Hispanics (15.9%), and Asian/Pacific Islanders (15.5%) (p<0.0001).
  
  CONCLUSION
  
  Geographic proximity to a high-volume hospital and travel distance to receive treatment are independently associated with NCCN guideline adherent care for advanced-stage ovarian cancer. Geographic barriers to standard ovarian cancer treatment disproportionately affect racial minorities and women of low-SES.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Adult Aged Black People California Female Guideline Adherence Health Services Accessibility Hispanic Or Latino Humans Middle Aged Native Hawaiian Or Other Pacific Islander Ovarian Neoplasms Retrospective Studies SEER Program Socioeconomic Factors White People

  More +
• Source:
  Gynecol Oncol. 134(1):60-67
• Pubmed ID:
  24680770
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4095874
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P30 CA062203/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P42 ES007381/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U58DP003862-01/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  134
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cfc1bb6c546612d480a0f2a540cfc1474534bf6d378af38461b9406bc158dc0f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/30033/cdc_30033_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.58 MB ]