Digital Follow-Up and the Perspective of Patient-Centered Care in Oncology: What ’s the PROblem?

There is accumulating evidence from randomized trials suggesting that digital patient-centered care allows a more reliable detection of tumour-related symptoms and adverse events – with a direct impact on overall survival. Consequently, a variety of unsynchronized approaches were kicked off to (electronically) measure patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Despite increasing evidence that PRO data are highly relevant for patient care, the data generated in these initial project s lack standardized processing pathways in order to impact clinical routine; therefore, potential future routine PRO assessments require adequate analysis, storage and processing to allow a robust, reproducible and reliable incorporation into routine clinical decision-making. Here, we discuss releva nt challenges of digital follow-up that need to be tackled to render PRO data as relevant to physicians as laboratory or biomarker data.Oncology
Source: Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research