Enhancing Outpatient Symptom Management in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer: A Qualitative Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients with head and neck cancer manage a variety of symptoms at home on an outpatient basis. Clinician review alone often leaves patient symptoms undetected and untreated. Standardized symptom assessment using patient-reported outcomes (PROs) has been shown in randomized clinical trials to improve symptom detection and overall survival, although translation into real-world settings remains a challenge.

Objective

To better understand how patients with head and neck cancer cope with cancer-related symptoms and to examine their perspectives on standardized symptom assessment.

Design, participants, and setting

This was a qualitative analysis using semistructured interviews of patients with head and neck cancer and their caregivers from November 2, 2020, to A

SUBMITTER: Noel CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8895314 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature