Reducing Symptom Distress in Patients With Advanced Cancer Using an e-Alert System for Caregivers: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Symptom distress in patients toward the end of life can change rapidly. Family caregivers have the potential to help patients manage those symptoms, as well as their own stress, if they are equipped with the proper resources. Electronic health (eHealth) systems may be able to provide those resources. Very sick patients may not be able to use such systems themselves to report their symptoms but family caregivers could.

Objective

The aim of this paper was to assess the effects on cancer patient symptom distress of an eHealth system that alerts clinicians to significant changes in the patient's symptoms, as reported by a family caregiver.

Methods

A pooled analysis from two randomized clinical trials (NCT00214162 and NCT00365963) compared outcomes at 12 months

SUBMITTER: Gustafson DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5705856 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature