Software for Administering the National Cancer Institute's Patient-Reported Outcomes Version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events: Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The US National Cancer Institute (NCI) developed software to gather symptomatic adverse events directly from patients participating in clinical trials. The software administers surveys to patients using items from the Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) through Web-based or automated telephone interfaces and facilitates the management of survey administration and the resultant data by professionals (clinicians and research associates).

Objective

The purpose of this study was to iteratively evaluate and improve the usability of the PRO-CTCAE software.

Methods

Heuristic evaluation of the software functionality was followed by semiscripted, think-aloud protocols in two consecutive rounds of usabil

SUBMITTER: Schoen MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6066634 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature