Real-time symptom management in the context of a remote symptom-monitoring system: prospective process evaluation and cross-sectional survey to explore clinical relevance.
Support Care Cancer
; 29(6): 3401-3408, 2021 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-33515304
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
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.METHODS:
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.RESULTS:
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).CONCLUSIONS:
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.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Avaliação de Sintomas
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Monitorização Fisiológica
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article