Publications by authors named "Yeneat O Chiu"
Purpose: Traditional oncology care models have not effectively identified and managed at-risk patients to prevent acute care. A next step is to harness advances in technology to enable patients to report symptoms any time, enabling digital hovering-intensive symptom monitoring and management. Our objective was to evaluate a digital platform that identifies and remotely monitors high-risk patients initiating antineoplastic therapy with the goal of preventing acute care visits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) may have the potential to improve cancer care delivery by enhancing patient quality of life, reducing acute care visits, and extending overall survival. However, the optimal cadence of ePRO assessments is unknown.
Objective: To determine patient response preferences and the clinical value associated with a daily cadence for ePROs for patients receiving antineoplastic treatment.
Purpose: Early detection and management of symptoms in patients with cancer improves outcomes. However, the optimal approach to symptom monitoring and management is unknown. InSight Care is a mobile health intervention that captures symptom data and facilitates patient-provider communication to mitigate symptom escalation.
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- The study aimed to develop a risk prediction model to identify patients at high risk for potentially preventable acute care visits (PPACVs) using electronic medical records from a cancer center.
- The model utilized a variety of clinical data features to predict the occurrence of PPACVs within the first six months of treatment, and it effectively surfaced key risk factors through a web application called riskExplorer.
- The findings indicated that a significant portion of PPACVs (35%) and inpatient bed usage (over 50%) were linked to patients identified in the top risk quartile, suggesting that further research could enhance care by targeting high-risk patients with better symptom management.
Purpose: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) identifies suboptimal management of treatment toxicities as a care gap and proposes the measurement of hospital performance on the basis of emergency department visits for 10 common symptoms. Current management strategies do not address symptom co-occurrence.
Methods: We evaluated symptom co-occurrence in three patient cohorts that presented to a cancer hospital urgent care center in 2016.