Conclusions
Anxiety, anxiety, cancer, cancer disease, Cancer
CANCER, DISORDER, CANCER
The results of this trial demonstrate that health care provider access to a web-based asynchronous communication system did not impact patient perceptions regarding continuity of care but may have been a factor in reducing cancer survivors’ anxiety after discharge to primary care. Future research could examine the applicability of the eOncoNote system for different cancer disease sites, other phases of cancer care, and more complex patients and explore the possibility of adapting the system to facilitate longitudinal communication across a patient’s cancer journey.The Canadian Team to Improve Community-Based Cancer Care along the Continuum (CanIMPACT) research program was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant TT7-128272). The CanIMPACT team is grateful for the collaboration with the Champlain BASE eConsult group, which helped to develop eOncoNote. The authors would like to thank the study participants, including primary care providers and cancer specialists who used eOncoNote, and patients who took the time to complete the questionnaires. The authors greatly appreciate Dr Mark Levine’s feedback on a draft version of this manuscript.Conflicts of Interest: None declared.CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) diagram.General Linear Model for Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener baseline-to-second follow-up change score in the survivorship phase.CONSORT-eHEALTH checklist (V 1.6.1).