Medical Xpress April 25, 2022
Postoperative monitoring of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and a wearable device is feasible and showed moderate ability to discriminate between the days the patients experienced postoperative adverse events and those they did not, according to a study published online April 15 in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
Emma L. Barber, M.D., from Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues tested the feasibility of implementing a postoperative monitoring program for women with gynecologic cancers that included PROs and a wearable activity monitor. The analysis included 34 women with PROs completed at baseline and weekly for four weeks.
The researchers reported that the overall wear time was 83.8 percent and patients responded to 80.4 percent of the...
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