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Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes Into the Care of People With Advanced Cancer—A Practical Guide

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Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are being increasingly integrated into routine clinical practice to enhance individual patient care. This has been driven by recognition of the benefits of PROs in enhancing symptom management, patient satisfaction, quality of life, and overall survival, and reductions in acute healthcare utilization. These benefits are reflected in the emergence of value-based healthcare initiatives incorporating PRO symptom monitoring such as the Enhancing Oncology Model in the United States.

However, implementing PROs can be challenging and it can be difficult to know where to begin to select appropriate PROs, and effectively display and appropriately interpret PRO data.

This manuscript summarizes an educational session at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting, which provided practical guidance to clinicians seeking to incorporate PROs into the care of people with advanced cancer.

We focus on why it is important to collect PROs in routine care from a patient's perspective, how to select PROs for symptom monitoring (including using static patient-reported outcome measures and newer item libraries), and highlight key pearls and pitfalls in the display and interpretation of PROs. We highlight the breadth of existing resources available to guide clinicians in PRO implementation.

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Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes Into the Care of People With Advanced Cancer—A Practical Guide

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