Daily Patient-Reported Symptoms as Predictors of Unplanned Health Care Encounters During Chemotherapy: Longitudinal Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Chemotherapy can cause symptoms that impair quality of life and lead to unplanned health care encounters (UHEs) such as emergency department visits and inpatient admissions. Collecting patient-reported symptom data between clinic visits can enable timely identification of symptoms. This observational study aimed to identify how daily individual symptoms are associated with UHE.

Methods

We recruited patients (n = 183) receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy for solid tumors into our 90-day study. Participants completed a modified version of the patient-reported outcome-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events questionnaire assessing common chemotherapy symptoms daily, and UHE information was extracted from medical records. We fit a series of logistic generalized estima

SUBMITTER: Kairis E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12333548 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature