Feasibility Study of Using Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes to Screen Patients with Advanced Solid Cancers for Palliative Care Needs.

Palliative care delivery in oncology is challenging and referral practices vary widely. Standardized, needs-based screening and triage systems are essential to more effectively address patients' palliative care needs. Assess the feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness among patients with advanced solid cancers of using electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) to screen for palliative care needs.

An evolutionary perspective on the genetics of anorexia nervosa.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) typically emerges around adolescence and predominantly affects females. Recent progress has been made in identifying biological correlates of AN, but more research is needed to pinpoint the specific mechanisms that lead to its development and maintenance. There is a known phenotypic link between AN, growth and sexual maturation, yet the genetic overlap between these phenotypes remains enigmatic.

An inter-rater variability study between human and automatic scorers in 5-s mini-epochs of sleep.

Study Objective: Sleep is traditionally scored using 30-s epochs of polysomnographies. As sleep is physiologically dynamic and 30-s epochs may conceal important characteristics, we aim to challenge this standard by scoring sleep in 5-s mini-epochs and analyzing inter-rater variability between human and automatic scorers.

Methods: In 40 polysomnography recordings, 120 mini-epochs per polysomnography were scored manually by three human experts (expert1_5s, expert2_5s and expert3_5s) and automatically by a validated sleep classifier (USleep_5s).

Feasibility and psychometric quality of smartphone administered cognitive ecological momentary assessments in women with metastatic breast cancer.

Objective: Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is associated with burdensome side effects, including cognitive changes that require ongoing monitoring. Cognitive ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) allow for assessment of individual cognitive functioning in natural environments and can be administered via smartphones. Accordingly, we sought to establish the feasibility, reliability, and validity of a commercially available cognitive EMA platform.