Table 1 Guideline characteristics
Guideline | Country of origin | Focus | Target audience | Survivor group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alberta Health Services | Canada | Survivorship care | Oncology providers; family physicians | Breast |
American Cancer Society | United States | Survivorship care | None explicitly stated, but oncology practitioners implied | None specified |
American Society of Clinical Oncology | United States | Survivorship care | None explicitly stated, but oncology practitioners implied | None specified |
Association of Community Cancer Centers | United States | Guidance for cancer program development | Association of Community Cancer Centers members; cancer care providers; community cancer centers | None specified |
Commission on Cancer | United States | Standards for cancer programs | None explicitly stated, but Commission on Cancer members, cancer care providers, and accredited cancer programs implied | None specified |
Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Netherlands | Netherlands | Survivorship care | Cancer care professionals who discuss aftercare and the cancer survivorship care plan with patients treated with curative intent | Solid tumor |
International Myeloma Foundation | United States | Survivorship care plans | Members of the Nurse Leadership Board; care providers for multiple myeloma survivors; healthcare providers; nurses | Multiple myeloma |
Institute of Medicine | United States | Survivorship care | Cancer care providers | Breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers; Hodgkin’s disease |
LIVESTRONG | United States | Survivorship care | Practitioners in any effective cancer survivorship program | None specified |
National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre | Australia | Survivorship care | Health care professionals | Breast |
National Comprehensive Cancer Network | United States | Survivorship care plans | Health care professionals who care for survivors of adult onset cancer in the post-treatment period, including those in both oncology and primary care practices | None specified |
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship/Institute of Medicine/ Lance Armstrong Foundation/ National Cancer Institute | United States | Survivorship care plans | Clinical oncology providers; primary care providers | None specified |
National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program | United States | Survivorship care plans | Practitioners in National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program member programs | None specified |
National Collaborating Centre for Cancer | United Kingdom | Survivorship care | Advanced practice nurses; nurses; pharmacists; physician assistants; physicians | Breast |
President’s Cancer Panel | United States | Survivorship care | Health care providers | None specified |
National Health Service | United Kingdom | Survivorship care | Primary Care Trusts CEs, National Health Service Trust CEs, Strategic Health Authorities CEs, Care Trust CEs, Foundation Trust CEs, Medical Directors, Directors of Nursing, Local Authority CEs, Directors of Adult Social Services, Primary Care Trusts Chairs, National Health Service Trust Board Chairs, Directors of Human Resources, Directors of Finance, Allied Health Professionals, General Practitioners, Communications Leads, Directors of Children’s Social Services (p 2); service users, carers, clinicians and service commissioners. (p 5); | None specified |