Patients' perceptions and experiences of using a mobile phone-based advanced symptom management system (ASyMS ©) to monitor and manage chemotherapy related toxicity

European Journal of Cancer Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 156-164

  McCann, L ^a   Maguire, R ^a   Miller, M ^a   Kearney, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; Information technology; Management of symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TELENURSING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLULAR PHONE; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TELENURSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61349152529     PISSN: 09615423     EISSN: 13652354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2008.00938.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Balas E.A. Lakovidis I. (1999) Distance technologies for patient monitoring. British Medical Journal, 319, 1309 1311.
2. Barnett T.E., Chumbler N.R., Vogel W.B., Beyth R.J., Qin H. Kobb R. (2006) The effectiveness of a care coordination home telehealth program for veterans with diabetes mellitus: a 2-year follow-up. American Journal of Managed Care, 12, 467 474.
3. Biermann E., Dietrich W., Rihl J. Standl E. (2002) Are there time and cost savings by using telemanagement for patients on intensified insulin therapy? A randomised, controlled trial. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 69, 137 146.
4. Chen-Hardee S., Chrischilles E.A., Voelker M.D., Brooks J.M., Scott S., Link B.K. Delgado D. (2006) Population-based assessment of hospitalizations for neutropenia from chemotherapy in older adults with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (United States). Cancer Causes and Control, 17, 647 654.
5. Chumbler N.R., Neugaard B., Kobb R., Ryan P., Qin H. Joo Y. (2005) Evaluation of a care coordination/home-telehealth program for veterans with diabetes: health services utilization and health-related quality of life. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 28, 464 478.
6. Cleeland C.S., Cleeland L.M., Dar R. Rinehardt L.C. (1986) Factors influencing physician management of cancer pain. Cancer, 58, 796 800.
7. Cleeland C.S., Gonin R., Hatfield A.K., Edmonson J.H., Blum R.H., Stewart J.A. Pandya K.J. (1994) Pain and its treatment in outpatients with metastatic cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 330, 592 596.
8. Dikken C. Sitzia J. (1998) Patients' experiences of chemotherapy: side-effects with 5-fluorouracil = folinic acid in the treatment of colorectal cancer. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 7, 371 379.
9. Dranitsaris G., Maroun J. Shah A. (2005) Estimating the cost of illness in colorectal cancer patients who were hospitalized for severe chemotherapy-induced diarrhoea. Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 19, 83 87.
10. Du X.L., Osborne C. Goodwin J.S. (2002) Population-based assessment of hospitalizations for toxicity from chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 20, 4636 4642.
11. Information Services Division (2007) Cancer in Scotland. NHS National Services, Scotland, UK.
12. Kearney N., Muir L., Miller M., Hargan I. Gray P. (2003) Using handheld computers to support patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy. European Journal of Cancer Supplements, 1, S368.
13. Kearney N., Kidd L., Miller M., Sage M., Khorrami J., McGee M., Cassidy J., Niven K. Gray P. (2006) Utilising handheld computers to monitor and support patients receiving chemotherapy: results of a UK-based feasibility study. Support Cancer Care, 14, 742 752.
14. Kuderer N.M., Dale D.C., Crawford J., Cosler L.E. Lyman G.H. (2006) Mortality, morbidity, and cost associated with febrile neutropenia in adult cancer patients. Cancer, 106, 2258 2266.
15. Louis A.A., Turner T., Gretton M., Baksh A. Cleland J.G. (2003) A systematic review of telemonitoring for the management of heart failure. European Journal of Heart Failure, 5, 583 590.
16. McCaughan E.M. Thompson K.A. (2000) Information needs of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy at a day-case unit in Northern Ireland. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 9, 851 858.
17. ©) in the remote monitoring of chemotherapy related toxicity. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, 9 202 210.
18. Mooney K.H., Beck S.L., Friedman R.H. Farzanfar R. (2002) Telephone-linked care for cancer symptom monitoring: a pilot study. Cancer Practice, 10, 147 154.
19. National Institutes of Health (NIH) State-of-the-Science Conference. Symptom management in cancer: pain, depression, and fatigue. NIH Consensus and State-of-the-Science Statements. July 15-17, 2002 19 (4 1 29. Available at: http://consensus.nih.gov/2002/2002CancerPainDepressionFatiguesos022html.htm.
20. Rasmussen L.M., Phanareth K., Nolte H. Backer V. (2005) Internet-based monitoring of asthma: a long-term, randomized clinical study of 300 asthmatic subjects. Journal of Allergy Clinical Immunology, 115, 1137 1142.
21. Richardson A. Ream E. (1996) The experience of fatigue and other symptoms in patients receiving chemotherapy. European Journal of Cancer Care, 5 (Suppl. 2 24 30.
22. Roine R., Ohinmaa A. Hailey D. (2001) Assessing telemedicine: a systematic review of the literature. CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal, 165, 765 771.
23. Scottish Executive Health Department (2005) Delivering for Health. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, UK.