Essential Components of an Electronic Patient-Reported Symptom Monitoring and Management System: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Multicomponent electronic patient-reported outcome cancer symptom management systems reduce symptom burden. Whether all components contribute to symptom reduction is unknown.

Objective: To deconstruct intervention components of the Symptom Care at Home (SCH) system, a digital symptom monitoring and management intervention that has demonstrated efficacy, to determine which component or combination of components results in the lowest symptom burden.

Assessing Patient Perspectives and the Health Equity of a Digital Cancer Symptom Remote Monitoring and Management System.

Purpose: People with cancer experience poorly controlled symptoms that persist between treatment visits. Automated digital technology can remotely monitor and facilitate symptom management at home. Essential to digital interventions is patient engagement, user satisfaction, and intervention benefits that are distributed across patient populations so as not to perpetuate inequities.

Hospice Referral in Advanced Cancer in New Jersey.

The need for hospice care is increasing in the United States, but insufficient lengths of stay and disparity in access to care continue. Few studies have examined the relationship between the presence of symptoms and hospice referral. The study measured the association between hospice referral and demographic characteristics and the presence of pain and depression in a cohort of people hospitalized with metastatic cancer in New Jersey in 2018.

Palliative Care Use in Advanced Cancer in the Garden State.

Background: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Patients with metastatic cancer have a high symptom burden. Major global and domestic cancer care recommendations advise integration of palliative care services for these patients.

Advanced care planning: The concept over time.

Background: The process of advanced care planning (ACP) assists patients to clarify goals for the end of life.

Design: The concept analysis used the Walker and Avant approach to analyze the concept of ACP.

Data Sources: Dictionary definitions, historical documents, position statements and database searches were performed in PubMed to yield 187 articles which were reviewed for use of the concept.