How does reporting symptoms impact cancer care for patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A greater sense of control, feeling in partnership with their care team, and not finding reporting symptoms burdensome are just a few of the outcomes reported by people with advanced cancer in a study of an electronic intervention where they self-reported symptoms so their care team could intervene. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says it’s a win-win.

Nelson: And so I think it's a reasonably successful demonstration of an electronic platform to collect this information. I think you're going to see more of this. They use the information when they did have the interval visits with their healthcare providers. I think this is going to go pretty far, and the whole thing conspiring if you will to intervene at a time when interventions are more effective and less of a hassle. Can we get them to all sectors of the population and socioeconomic status the way they're covered? It's encouraging that they were able to do well with this independent of the way people are connected back to the healthcare but I think it's still going to be a concern as we build these.   :34

At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.