Fostering Palliative Care Through Digital Intervention: A Platform for Adult Patients With Hematologic Malignancies.

ABSTRACT: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are an emerging paradigm in clinical research and healthcare, aiming to capture the patient's self-assessed health status in order to gauge efficacy of treatment from their perspective. As these patient-generated health data provide insights into the effects of healthcare processes in real-life settings beyond the clinical setting, they can also be viewed as a resolution beyond what can be gleaned directly by the clinician. To this end, patients are identified as a key stakeholder of the healthcare decision making process, instead of passively following their doctor's guidance. As this joint decision-making process requires constant and high-quality communication between the patient and his/her healthcare providers, novel methodologies and tools have been p

SUBMITTER: Koumakis L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8718505 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature