A Narrative Review on the Collection and Use of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer Survivorship Care with Emphasis on Symptom Monitoring
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Mols, Floortje
Eicher, Manuela
Chan, Raymond J
Becker, Annemarie
Geleijnse, Gijs
Walraven, Iris
Coolbrandt, Annemarie
Lustberg, Maryam
Velikova, Galina
Charalambous, Andreas
Koczwara, Bogda
Howell, Doris
Basch, Ethan M
van de Poll-franse, Lonneke V
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Electronic patient‐reported outcome (ePRO) applications promise great added value for improving symptom management and health‐related quality of life. The aim of this narrative review is to describe the collection and use of ePROs for cancer survivorship care, with an emphasis on ePRO‐symptom monitoring. It offers many different perspectives from research settings, while current implementation in routine care is ongoing. ePRO collection optimizes survivorship care by providing insight into the patients’ well‐being and prioritizing their unmet needs during the whole trajectory from diagnosis to end‐of‐life. ePRO‐symptom monitoring can contribute to timely health risk detection and subsequently allow earlier intervention. Detection is optimized by automatically generated alerts that vary from simple to complex and multilayered. Using ePRO‐symptoms during in‐hospital consultation enhances the patients’ conversation with the health care provider before making informed decisions about treatments, other interventions, or self‐management. ePRO(symptoms) entail specific implementation issues and complementary ethics considerations. The latter is due to privacy concerns, digital divide, and scarcity of adequately representative data for particular groups of patients.
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Current Oncology
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29
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6
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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Oncology and carcinogenesis
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Oncology
cancer
survivorship
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van den Hurk, CJG; Mols, F; Eicher, M; Chan, RJ; Becker, A; Geleijnse, G; Walraven, I; Coolbrandt, A; Lustberg, M; Velikova, G; Charalambous, A; Koczwara, B; Howell, D; Basch, EM; van de Poll-franse, LV, A Narrative Review on the Collection and Use of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer Survivorship Care with Emphasis on Symptom Monitoring, Current Oncology, 2022, 29 (6), pp. 4370-4385