Physician Surveys

In keeping with its mission, the Healthcare Delivery Research Program tracks the use of screening modalities, therapies, new technologies, and other factors that may influence the cancer burden nationally. Many of these therapies and technologies are available to patients and the public only through contact with a health care provider. Because research findings and new technologies may have minimal impact if they are not adopted into widespread use by practicing physicians, periodic assessment of physician practice with respect to new as well as established cancer control technologies is critically important. The following physician surveys have been conducted by HDRP to date:

• National Surveys of Colorectal Cancer Screening Policies and Practices (1999-2000 and 2005-2006)
• Physician Survey on Cancer Susceptibility Testing (1999-2000)
• National Survey of Primary Care Physicians’ Recommendations and Practice for Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, and Lung Cancer Screening (2006-2007)
• National Survey of Energy Balance-related Care among Primary Care Physicians (2008)
• Survey of Physician Attitudes Regarding the Care of Cancer Survivors (SPARCCS) (2009)
• National Survey of Precision Medicine in Cancer Treatment (2017)