ArticleCancers2023
Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (ePROMs) Improve the Assessment of Underrated Physical and Psychological Symptom Burden among Oncological Inpatients.
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- Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Management of Acute Myeloid Leukemia.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Psychological Screening and Support for Patients Enrolled in Early-Phase Cancer Clinical Trials and the Possible Barriers: A Real-World Tertiary Center Implementation Study.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Obtaining Patient-Reported Outcome Data via a Home Patient Monitoring App: Development, Implementation, and Validation of Novel Interface Terminology.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- Standardized Usage of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measurements is Time-Efficient and Feasible.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Determining the cut-off value for the Minimal Documentation System (MIDOS2) screening tool to initiate specialized palliative care based on patient's subjective need for palliative support and symptom burden in inpatients with advanced cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Integration of Psychosocial Theory into Palliative Care: Implications for Care Planning and Early Palliative Care.Cancers · 2024Review
- Relevance of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Patients with Cancer: Detection of Underrated Psychological Distress of Palliative Care Patients in an Outpatient Setting.Palliative medicine reports · 2024Article
- Healthcare professionals' perceived barriers in providing palliative care in primary care and nursing homes: a survey study.Palliative care and social practice · 2023Article
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Abstract
For advanced cancer inpatients, the established standard for gathering information about symptom burden involves a daily assessment by nursing staff using validated assessments. In contrast, a systematic assessment of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is required, but it is not yet systematically implemented. We hypothesized that current practice results in underrating the severity of patients' symptom burden. To explore this hypothesis, we have established systematic electronic PROMs (ePROMs) using validated instruments at a major German Comprehensive Cancer Center. In this retrospective, non-interventional study, lasting from September 2021 to February 2022, we analyzed collected data from 230 inpatients. Symptom burden obtained by nursing staff was compared to the data acquired by ePROMs. Differences were detected by performing descriptive analyses, Chi-Square tests, Fisher's exact, Phi-correlation, Wilcoxon tests, and Cohen's r. Our analyses pointed out that pain and anxiety especially were significantly underrated by nursing staff. Nursing staff ranked these symptoms as non-existent, whereas patients stated at least mild symptom burden (pain: mean
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