A Text Message Intervention to Minimize the Time Burden of Cancer Care.

ABSTRACT: Patients with cancer spend considerable time commuting to, waiting for, and receiving health care. Patient-reported outcomes have been collected electronically to monitor patients for toxicity related to treatment, but, to the authors' knowledge, they have not been used as a strategy to minimize patients' time spent on cancer care by streamlining care delivery. Researchers at Penn Medicine set an objective to assess the effectiveness and implementation of a text message-based symptom reporting electronic triage (e-triage) versus usual care to minimize the time toxicity associated with ambulatory cancer care. The methods employed included a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation, unblinded, randomized controlled trial and sequential mixed-methods study, which was conducted between Decem

SUBMITTER: Bange EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12276887 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature