Trial reportJournal of pain and symptom management2022
Completion of Patient-Reported Outcome Questionnaires Among Older Adults with Advanced Cancer.
Trial report in Journal of pain and symptom management, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02107443 (Improving Communication for Cancer Treatment), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Improving Communication for Cancer Treatment: Addressing Concerns of Older Cancer Patients and Caregivers
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions for interpersonal communication about end of life care between health practitioners and affected people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of a Geriatric Assessment Intervention on Patient-Reported Symptomatic Toxicity in Older Adults With Advanced Cancer.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2023Trial
- Real-world implementation of electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) in routine oncology practice: a scoping review.ESMO real world data and digital oncology · 2026Review
- The ESMO/SIOG Cancer in the Elderly Working Group pragmatic strategies for clinical trial designs and endpoints in older adults with cancer.ESMO open · 2026Review
- Patient and Physician Perspectives on Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD Care: A Qualitative Study.Kidney medicine · 2026Article
- Preference for palliative care among low-income advanced cancer patients in Mainland China: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Intracluster correlation coefficients from cluster randomized trials conducted within the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP).Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2025Article
- Facilitators and barriers to implementing patient-reported outcomes in clinical oncology practice: a systematic review based on the consolidated framework for implementation research.Implementation science communications · 2024Review
- Hematological Malignancies in Older Patients: Focus on the Potential Role of a Geriatric Assessment Management.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A Retrospective Age Analysis of the Ambulatory Oncology Patient Satisfaction Survey: Differences in Satisfaction across Dimensions of Person-Centred Care and Unmet Needs among Older Adults Receiving Cancer Treatment.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- Fixing the Leaky Pipe: How to Improve the Uptake of Patient-Reported Outcomes-Based Prognostic and Predictive Models in Cancer Clinical Practice.JCO clinical cancer informatics · 2023Article
- Reply to T. Kaneko et al.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2023Article
- Older adults with advanced cancer report pain not captured by clinician-graded Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE).Journal of geriatric oncology · 2023Article
- Review
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
contextSystematic collection of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) reduces symptom burden and improves quality of life. The ability of older adults to complete PROs, however, has not been thoroughly studied.
objectivesTo determine whether older adults with advanced cancer received assistance completing PROs, the nature of the assistance, the factors associated with receiving assistance, and how the prevalence of assistance changed over time.
methodsData were obtained from a multisite cluster randomized controlled study of geriatric assessment (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02107443). Adults ≥70 years with advanced cancer completed multiple PROs at 4 time points (enrollment, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months). Factors associated with receipt of assistance were assessed with bivariate and multivariate analyses.
resultsThe study included 541 adults (range 70-96 years, 49% female, mixed incurable cancer diagnoses). Twenty-eight percent (153/541) received assistance completing PROs. Of these, 42% received assistance from caregivers, 37% from research staff, and 15% from both. Factors associated with receiving assistance included older age [Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) 3.71, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 1.03-13.38], lower education level (3.92, 2.11-7.29), impaired cognition (1.90, 1.23-2.93), impaired functional status (2.16, 1.33-3.52), and impaired hearing (1.38, 1.05-1.80). Eighty percent of individuals who received assistance were identified at study initiation. Receiving assistance decreased over time from 28% to 18%, partially due to drop-outs.
conclusionOver a quarter of older adults with advanced cancer in this study received assistance completing PROs. Completing PROs is a key aspect of many clinical programs and cancer trials; assistance in completing PROs should be offered and provided.
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