Web-Based Cancer Symptom Self-Management System: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients with cancer and cancer survivors frequently experience symptoms that increase the need for health care services and impair quality of life. Effective symptom management is critical for comprehensive patient-centered cancer care.

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of adding a bilingual (English and Spanish), web-based self-management program to an electronic health record (EHR)-integrated patient-reported outcome for cancer (cPRO) assessment in reducing symptom burden and health care resource use (HCRU).

Design, setting, and participants

This patient-level randomized clinical trial was performed at the Northwestern Memorial HealthCare system in Chicago, Illinois. Participants included 1614 adult patients with cancer or cancer survivors in 30 cl

SUBMITTER: Cella D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12053558 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature