Differential effects of an electronic symptom monitoring intervention based on the age of patients with advanced cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Symptom monitoring interventions enhance patient outcomes, including quality of life (QoL), health care utilization, and survival, but it remains unclear whether older and younger patients with cancer derive similar benefits. We explored whether age moderates the improved outcomes seen with an outpatient electronic symptom monitoring intervention.

Patients and methods

We carried out a secondary analysis of data from a randomized trial of 766 patients receiving chemotherapy for metastatic solid tumors. Patients received an electronic symptom monitoring intervention integrated with oncology care or usual oncology care alone. The intervention consisted of patients reporting their symptoms, which were provided to their physicians at clinic visits, and nurses receiving

SUBMITTER: Nipp RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497788 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature