Automated monitoring of symptoms during ambulatory chemotherapy and oncology providers' use of the information: A randomized controlled clinical trial

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2343-2350

  Mooney, Kathi H ^a,b   Beck, Susan L ^a,b   Friedman, Robert H ^c,d,e   Farzanfar, Ramesh ^c,d,e   Wong, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated symptom monitoring; Patient provider communication; Patient reported outcomes; Provider response to unrelieved symptoms; Unrelieved symptom alerts

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG FEVER; E-MAIL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOOD DISORDER; MOUTH PAIN; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NURSE; ONCOLOGIST; ONCOLOGY; ONCOLOGY NURSE; OVARY CANCER; PARALLEL DESIGN; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TELEMONITORING; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; SELF CARE; TELEPHONE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SELF CARE; SELF REPORT; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84906307850     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-014-2216-1     Document Type: Article

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