The Association between Survivorship Care Plans and Patient-Reported Satisfaction and Confidence with Follow-Up Cancer Care Provided by Primary Care Providers

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Interesting article on an important and timely topic. The manuscript is well written and clearly presented. 

Author Response

Thank you very much for your review of our manuscript. We appreciate your feedback

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors describe well a situation on which there is still a lot of confusion due to the disparity of review results and the lack of prospective studies and with their manuscript add new information.

The progressive increase in the cancer survivor population requires the definition of guidelines as uniform as possible on the best SCP to offer, especially modulated on the basis of the tumor and the treatments received. Each SCP must certainly then be adapted to the local reality.

Minor observations:

- pag 2, at end of line 96 "to (1) to..." repeated?

- standardize "a SCP" or "an SCP"

- a comment could be made on the results regarding patients with breast cancer

Author Response

hank you very much for your review of our manuscript. We appreciate your feedback.

We have incorporated the minor comments into the manuscript (e.g., deleted the duplicated “to”, made “a SCP” consistent throughout). Although we agree that the results related to breast cancer are interesting, we do not feel we have enough data to comment on breast cancer specifically.

Reviewer 3 Report

The study by Chu et al. reported the relationship between acceptance of survival care plans and relevant sociodemographic factors, confidence in follow-up care provided by primary care providers, and examined the relationship between acceptance plans and confidence in follow-up care provided by primary care providers in 9970 patients with primary cancer. The results of this study indicate that sociodemographic and medical factors have a significant impact on the chances of receiving SCP. The proportion of survivors who are more likely to receive a survival care program varies with many sociodemographic and medical factors, such as cancer type, gender, and education. The study involved a large sample size, comprehensive analysis items, the results are convincing, and it has very important reference significance in clinical application. I therefore recommend that it be accepted and published

Author Response

Thank you very much for your review of our manuscript. We appreciate your feedback.