Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Routine Hematology Cancer Care: A Scoping Review
Suriya Kirkpatrick1, Karen Campbell, Samantha Harding
1Author Affiliations: North Bristol NHS Trust (Mrs Kirkpatrick, Dr Harding, and Ms Rudd); Edinburgh Napier University (Dr Campbell).
Background:
Hematological cancers have devastating effects on patients' physical, emotional, and psychosocial health. There is growing evidence to support the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) through validated tools. Although PROMs are widely adopted in oncology, uptake in hematology remains limited in routine clinical care.
Objective:
This review seeks to explore the utility of PROMs in routine hematology clinical practice and to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to benefits of PROMs to patients.
Methods:
The review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis scoping review model for organizing information.
Results:
Ten thousand and seventy-one articles were identified, 110 full texts were reviewed, and 14 articles met the final inclusion criteria. More than 20 individual outcome measures were identified that fell into the following categories: accessibility and usability, self-efficacy, shared decision-making, and implementation.
Conclusions:
Studies focused primarily on the choice of PROM, acceptability and usability, motivation for use, patient and healthcare professionals' experience of using PROMs, the stated value of PROMs, and implementation advice. However, there are limited published studies supporting how PROMs can be adopted into routine care for people with hematological cancer.
Implications For Practice:
There are various validated PROMs but limited research on how to meaningfully implement them to improve clinical and patient outcomes in the routine care of hematology patients.
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