Patient reported outcomes in oncology: changing perspectives-a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: In public health context, oncology is associated with severe negative impact on patients and on their relatives' quality of life. Over the last decades, survival has remained at 50% worldwide for some tumor locations. Patient reported outcomes (PROs) assessment and, the corresponding use in clinical practice, help establishing patient individualized profiling involving caregivers. The purpose of this systematic review was to examine critical success factors for PROs assessment in daily clinical oncology practice. Additionally, we investigated how PROs collection can change oncology perspectives for patients and caregivers. According to PRISMA guidelines, 83 studies were included in this systematic review, whether related with implementation in daily clinical practice or associated with its

SUBMITTER: Silveira A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9124403 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature