Patient Experiences With a Symptom Monitoring and Self-Referral Program for Specialty Palliative Care After Lung Cancer Diagnosis: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palliative care improves patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) by delivering specialty-level management for cancer symptoms. Digital symptom monitoring programs (SMPs) improve patients' HRQoL through early symptom identification during cancer care. Through complementary approaches, SMPs and palliative care align with symptom management theory by linking the patient-reported symptom experience with clinician recommendations for symptom management to improve health outcomes for patients with serious illness. While both SMPs and palliative care reduce health care use and improve survival through detection and treatment of cancer symptoms, few studies have attempted to integrate palliative care into SMPs for cancer symptom management.

Objective

This study a

SUBMITTER: Agne JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC13650458 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature