Tell Us™: a Web-based tool for improving communication among patients, families, and providers in hospice and palliative care through systematic data specification, collection, and use.

Context: Routine electronic patient-reported outcome collection in patients with advanced disease could improve communication among patients, caregivers, and providers, the timeliness of identifying problems, and effectiveness of follow-up.

Objectives: To develop a Web-based tool to collect symptoms and needed data and provide feedback to hospice and palliative care patients, caregivers, and providers.

Methods: We developed Tell Us™ based on an existing pure Web technology platform, the Medical Decision Logic, Inc.