Patient-reported outcome measurement of symptom distress is feasible in most clinical scenarios in palliative care: an observational study involving routinely collected data.

ABSTRACT: Implementation of routinely collected patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) ensures patients' priorities are at the forefront of care planning and helps to standardize approaches to quality improvement. In palliative care, barriers to PROMs are widely known but what are not understood are the clinical and care settings in which patients are more likely to report and when proxy reporting is needed. To examine the incidence of patient-reported symptom distress compared to the incidence of proxy reporting in palliative care and influencing factors. A national observational study using routinely collected PROMs data with influencing factors investigated by logistic regression modelling. Participants were patients with an advanced life-limiting illness receiving palliative care in an inpati

SUBMITTER: Clapham S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8132729 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature