Patient-reported symptom and urgent healthcare use in neuroendocrine tumors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have a high burden of symptoms persisting over years after diagnosis. Patient-reported outcome measures are routinely screened for in oncology practice but seldom used for interventions. Further information about how they are linked to outcomes could improve their use. We examined the association between patient-reported symptoms and urgent healthcare use after NET diagnosis.

Patients and methods

We conducted a population-level retrospective cohort study of adults diagnosed with NETs over 2010-2019. The exposure was Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) scores within 2 years of diagnosis. The outcome was urgent healthcare utilization (emergency department visits and/or unplanned hospital admission) in 14 days after ES

SUBMITTER: Hallet J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12821087 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature