• J Pain Symptom Manage · Aug 2023

    Implementation of Patient Reported Outcomes in Outpatient Palliative Care: From Paper to Computer.

    • David Hui, Gustavo Scannapieco Mastroleo, Aline Rozman De Morales, Angela Peek, Akhila Reddy, Donna S Zhukovsky, Manju Joy, Sara Ali, and Eduardo Bruera.
    • Department of Palliative (D.H., A.R.D-M., A.R., D.S.Z., M.J., E.B.), Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. Electronic address: dhui@mdanderson.org.
    • J Pain Symptom Manage. 2023 Aug 1; 66 (2): e197e203e197-e203.

    BackgroundThis quality improvement project aimed to transition completion of Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) at our supportive care clinic from paper to electronic format.MeasuresProportion of patients who completed electronic ESAS (eESAS).InterventionStarting July 2018, patients could complete eESAS 24h before check-in (eESAS-before), eESAS after check-in (eESAS-after) or on paper (pESAS).OutcomesA total of 6631 cancer patients had 25,767 clinic visits between July 13, 2018 and November 5, 2021. The ESAS completion rate was 100%. eESAS uptake gradually increased over time, first reaching ≥75% eESAS completion in 5/2019 (eESAS-after 61.9%; eESAS-before 14.0%; pESAS 24.1%). We observed a sharp uptake in eESAS-before since adoption of telehealth during the pandemic (May 2020) and the ≥75% eESAS target was consistently achieved from November 2020 onwards (eESAS-after 0.6%; eESAS-before 76.7%; pESAS 22.7%). In an anonymous survey, we identified several modifiable barriers to implementing eESAS.ConclusionsTransition to eESAS was a gradual process and was catalyzed by the pandemic.Copyright © 2023 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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