Symptom Screening for Hospitalized Pediatric Patients With Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Pediatric patients with cancer experience severely bothersome symptoms during treatment. It was hypothesized that symptom screening and provision of symptom reports to the health care team would reduce symptom burden in pediatric patients with cancer.

Objective

To determine if daily symptom screening and provision of symptom reports to the health care team was associated with lower total symptom burden as measured by the Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) compared to usual care among pediatric patients with cancer admitted to a hospital or seen in a clinic daily for at least 5 days.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial enrolled participants from July 2018 to September 2023 from 8 Canadian tertiary care centers that dia

SUBMITTER: Dupuis LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11561725 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature