Real-time symptom management in the context of a remote symptom-monitoring system: prospective process evaluation and cross-sectional survey to explore clinical relevance
| Autor: | Evi Vandeneede, Hans Wildiers, Kristof Muylaert, Christophe Dooms, Annemarie Coolbrandt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cross-sectional study Pain medicine MEDLINE Physical examination Context (language use) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Prospective Studies mHealth Monitoring Physiologic medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Nursing research medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Patient-reported outcome Female Medical emergency Symptom Assessment business |
| Zdroj: | Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. 29(6) |
| ISSN: | 1433-7339 |
| Popis: | Electronic systems for remotely monitoring symptoms during systemic anticancer treatment are increasingly being used. Some of these systems have features triggering alerts to healthcare professionals for worsening and/or severe symptoms, enabling real-time symptom management. This study aimed at exploring the characteristics and process of real-time alert management as well as its clinical relevance as perceived by healthcare professionals. From January until September 2019, a prospective process evaluation was set up to collect data on all alerts and their management. Also, an online survey presenting a selected number of cases was set up to explore oncologists’ and oncology nurses’ perceived clinical relevance of the real-time management of the alerts. The overall incidence rate of alerts was 1.4%. Of 253 alerts, pain, fever, dyspnea, and nausea were the most prevalent symptoms triggering an alert. The majority of alerts was managed by a nursing telephone consult alone. In 25.3% of cases, clinical examination was deemed necessary to manage the alert. In 148 of the ratings, oncologists and oncology nurses (totally) agreed with the clinical relevance of the real-time management (95.1%). The mean relevance score attached to the cases was 4.51 (±0.80). The majority of alerts triggered by a mobile tool for remote symptom monitoring during cancer treatment can be managed by a telephone nursing consult and real-time management is evaluated as (very) relevant by the majority of clinicians. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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