Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as a routine measure for cancer inpatients: the final missing piece of the puzzle?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Systemic therapies for preventing or treating aromatase inhibitor-induced musculoskeletal symptoms in early breast cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Patient-reported outcomes - the missing link to advancing light chain (AL) amyloidosis clinical research.Blood reviews · 2025
   Review
3. Cognitive deficit identified via pre-operative patient reported outcome measures is a predictor for post-operative health care utilization in gynecologic oncology patients.Journal of gynecologic oncology · 2025
   Article
4. Exploring the Use of a Digital Platform for Cancer Patients to Report Their Demographics, Disease and Therapy Characteristics, Age, and Educational Disparities: An Early-Stage Feasibility Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023
   Article
5. A prospective, randomized trial of patient-reported outcome measures to drive management decisions in hematology and oncology.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022
   Article
6. Development and Pilot Implementation of a Remote Monitoring System for Acute Toxicity Using Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2021
   Article
7. User experiences on implementation of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs)in a Haematological outpatient clinic.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2020
   Article
8. Haematologists' experiences implementing patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in an outpatient clinic: a qualitative study for applied practice.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2019
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Pilot randomized trial of an electronic symptom monitoring intervention for hospitalized patients with cancer.2019

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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