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ReviewCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2022

Striving to Fill in Gaps between Clinical Practice and Standards: The Evolution of a Pan-Canadian Approach to Patient-Reported Outcomes Use.

Amanda Caissie, Robert Olson, Lisa Barbera, Jennifer O'Donnell, Carol-Anne Davis, Jennifer Croke, Louise Bird, John Kildea, Erika Brown, Michael Brundage and 1 more

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Review in Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  3. Customizing workflows for electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) symptom monitoring using the action, actor, context, target, time (AACTT) framework.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Amanda CaissieDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1V7, Canada.
Robert OlsonDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of British Columbia, Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4532-6197
Lisa BarberaDepartment of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Jennifer O'DonnellDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 5P9, Canada.
Carol-Anne DavisDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1V7, Canada.
Jennifer CrokeRadiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M6B 1V2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7090-6313
Louise BirdCanadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy, Carlyle, SK S0C 0R0, Canada.
John KildeaMedical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7084-1425
Erika BrownCanadian Organization of Medical Physicists, Ottawa, ON K2K 2E2, Canada.
Michael BrundageDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 5P9, Canada.
Michael MilosevicRadiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M6B 1V2, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the known importance and necessity of the standardized collection and use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), there remain challenges to successful clinical implementation. Facilitated through a quality improvement initiative spearheaded by the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR), and now guided by the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO)'s Quality and Standards Committee, patient representatives and early-adopter radiation treatment programs continue to champion the expansion of PROs initiatives across the country. The current review discusses the evolution of a pan-Canadian approach to PROs use, striving to fill in gaps between clinical practice and guideline recommendations through multi-centre and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Indexed as

Patient Reported Outcome MeasuresRadiation OncologyCanadaHumansBig Datapatient-reported outcomesquality improvementradiotherapy

Identifiers

PMID35621686
PMCPMC9140091

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