Practical suggestions for harms reporting in exercise oncology: the Exercise Harms Reporting Method (ExHaRM).

ABSTRACT: The volume of high-quality evidence supporting exercise as beneficial to cancer survivors has grown exponentially; however, the potential harms of exercise remain understudied. Consequently, the trade-off between desirable and undesirable outcomes of engaging in exercise remains unclear to clinicians and people with cancer. Practical guidance on collecting and reporting harms in exercise oncology is lacking. We present a harms reporting protocol developed and refined through exercise oncology trials since 2015.Development of the Exercise Harms Reporting Method (ExHaRM) was informed by national and international guidelines for harms reporting in clinical trials involving therapeutic goods or medical devices, with adaptations to enhance applicability to exercise. The protocol has been adjust

SUBMITTER: Spence RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature