Acceptability of Routine Evaluations Using Patient-Reported Outcomes of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events and Other Patient-Reported Symptom Outcome Tools in Cancer Outpatients: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Experience.

CONCLUSION: Routine assessment using PRO questionnaires is associated with moderate acceptability by patients with cancer. Specific patient characteristics are associated with higher completion willingness. Additional research is necessary to identify factors associated with low acceptability of PRO questionnaires and to develop site-, ethnicity-, and treatment-specific instruments to assess the value of PRO questionnaires for symptom monitoring in clinical practice.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: This study will help to identify the clinical, demographic, and survey characteristics associated with willingness to complete patient-reported outcome questionnaires regularly in the cancer outpatient setting.
PMID: 31409744 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Oncologist - August 12, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Albaba H, Barnes TA, Veitch Z, Brown MC, Shakik S, Su S, Naik H, Wang T, Liang M, Perez-Cosio A, Eng L, Mittmann N, Xu W, Howell D, Liu G Tags: Oncologist Source Type: research