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ArticleFrontiers in digital health2021

Fostering Palliative Care Through Digital Intervention: A Platform for Adult Patients With Hematologic Malignancies.

Lefteris Koumakis, Fatima Schera, Heather Parker, Panos Bonotis, Maria Chatzimina, Panagiotis Argyropaidas, Giorgos Zacharioudakis, Michael Schäfer, Christine Kakalou, Christina Karamanidou and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in digital health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Lefteris KoumakisInstitute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece.
Fatima ScheraInstitute for Biomedical Engineering, Sulzbach, Germany.
Heather ParkerAtlantis Healthcare, London, United Kingdom.
Panos BonotisInstitute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Maria ChatziminaInstitute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece.
Panagiotis ArgyropaidasInstitute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece.
Giorgos ZacharioudakisInstitute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece.
Michael SchäferInstitute for Biomedical Engineering, Sulzbach, Germany.
Christine KakalouInstitute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Christina KaramanidouInstitute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Jana DidiCenter for Molecular Medicine, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.
Eleni KazantzakiDepartment of Hematology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece.
Lydia ScarfoUniversita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Kostas MariasInstitute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece.
Pantelis NatsiavasInstitute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas · GRCentre for Research and Technology Hellas · GRFraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering · DEAtlantic Healthcare (United Kingdom) · GBCentral European Institute of Technology – Masaryk University · CZUniversity Hospital of Heraklion · GRVita-Salute San Raffaele University · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are an emerging paradigm in clinical research and healthcare, aiming to capture the patient's self-assessed health status in order to gauge efficacy of treatment from their perspective. As these patient-generated health data provide insights into the effects of healthcare processes in real-life settings beyond the clinical setting, they can also be viewed as a resolution beyond what can be gleaned directly by the clinician. To this end, patients are identified as a key stakeholder of the healthcare decision making process, instead of passively following their doctor's guidance. As this joint decision-making process requires constant and high-quality communication between the patient and his/her healthcare providers, novel methodologies and tools have been proposed to promote richer and preemptive communication to facilitate earlier recognition of potential complications. To this end, as PROs can be used to quantify the patient impact (especially important for chronic conditions such as cancer), they can play a prominent role in providing patient-centric care. In this paper, we introduce the MyPal platform that aims to support adults suffering from hematologic malignancies, focusing on the technical design and highlighting the respective challenges. MyPal is a Horizon 2020 European project aiming to support palliative care for cancer patients via the electronic PROs (ePROs) paradigm, building upon modern eHealth technologies. To this end, MyPal project evaluate the proposed eHealth intervention via clinical studies and assess its potential impact on the provided palliative care. More specifically, MyPal platform provides specialized applications supporting the regular answering of well-defined and standardized questionnaires, spontaneous symptoms reporting, educational material provision, notifications etc. The presented platform has been validated by end-users and is currently in the phase of pilot testing in a clinical study to evaluate its feasibility and its potential impact on the quality of life of palliative care patients with hematologic malignancies.

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cancerdigital interventionePROshealth informaticsmHealthpalliative care

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PMID34977857
PMCPMC8718505
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