Strategies for implementing an electronic patient-reported outcomes-based symptom management program across six cancer centers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO)-based symptom management improves cancer patients' outcomes. However, implementation of ePROs is challenging, requiring technical resources for integration into clinical systems, substantial buy-in from clinicians and patients, novel workflows to support between-visit symptom management, and institutional investment.

Methods

The SIMPRO Research Consortium developed eSyM, an electronic health record-integrated, ePRO-based symptom management program for medical oncology and surgery patients and deployed it at six cancer centers between August 2019 and April 2022 in a type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized stepped-wedge study. Sites documented implementation strategies monthly using REDCap, itemized t

SUBMITTER: Hassett M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11558981 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature