Harnessing the patient voice in prostate cancer research: Systematic review on the use of patient-reported outcomes in randomized controlled trials to support clinical decision-making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the growing importance of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as part of "big data" in improving patient care, there is a need to provide a state-of-the-art picture of the added value of using PROs in prostate cancer (PCa) randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We aimed to synthetize the most recent high-quality PRO evidence-based knowledge from PCa RCTs and to examine whether quality of PRO reporting in PCa research improved over time.

Methods

We conducted a systematic literature search using PubMed, from April 2012 until February 2019. For benchmarking purposes, we also included RCTs identified in our previously published review of RCTs (2004-2012). Methodology for study identification and evaluation followed standardized criteria and a predefined data extracti

SUBMITTER: Van Hemelrijck M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7300413 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature