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Background: Radiation oncologists closely monitor patients during weekly on-treatment visits (OTVs). This study examines whether routine patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) during OTVs change physicians' perceptions of treatment-toxicity and inform symptom-management.
Patient And Methods: IMPROVE is a single-arm prospective multicenter trial, conducted from 2020 to 2023. Patients with locally-advanced or oligometastatic thoracic or gastrointestinal cancers receiving definitive-intent radiation, with or without chemotherapy, and their physicians enrolled. Patients completed a 14-question disease-specific PROM in clinic prior to OTVs. Physicians rated their patient's global toxicity-burden based on clinical data/assessments, then re-rated their patient's toxicity-burden and reported management-changes after PROM review. At radiotherapy end, physicians completed a Feedback Form. PROMs and outcome-data collection used electronic or paper forms. We report any change in physician-assessed burden-score and symptom-management due to PROMs.
Results: The 100 patients enrolled (49 academic, 51 community-based) were 70 years old (median), 51% female, 81% Caucasian, 95% ECOG 0-1, and 94% received concurrent chemotherapy. The median radiation dose was 60 Gy, delivered over 6 weeks. PROMs were available for review for 607/629 (97%) OTVs: full 433/629 (69%), partial 174/629 (28%). For 75/100 patients (75%; 95% CI:65%-83%), PROM review resulted in any change in physician-reported burden-score, and for 50/100 patients (50%; 95% CI:40%-60%) any change in patients' on-treatment management. Rates of burden-score and management-changes were similar between academic and community-based practices (78% vs. 73%; 53% vs. 47%, respectively). For 78/100 patients with Feedback Forms, physicians agreed/strongly agreed that PROMs improved patients' quality-of-care (91%).
Conclusions: PROM review changes radiation oncologists' on-treatment toxicity assessment in 75% and care delivery in 50% of their patients.
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