Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Electronic Patient-Reported Symptoms After Ambulatory Cancer Surgery
Authors' conclusion
Defining detailed postoperative symptom burden through this analysis provides valuable data to inform further implementation and maintenance of RSM programs in surgical oncology patients.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing ambulatory prostatectomy, nephrectomy, mastectomy, hysterectomy or thyroidectomy at the Josie Robertson Surgery Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, September 2016 to June 2022, with remote symptom monitoring via an ePRO platform (Recovery Tracker) for 10 days after surgery10,814 responded
- Participants
- 12,433 patients
- Outcome
- Symptom severity and interference by postoperative day and procedure
- Follow-up
- 10 days after surgery
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Postoperative symptom burden
- Fatigue reported (rarely severe)
- 6120 patients (57%)
- Very severe pain
- 324 of 10 814 (3%)
- Very severe fatigue
- 106 of 10 814 (1%)
- Severe or very severe maximum pain after nephrectomy
- 92 of 332 [28%]
- Severe or very severe maximum pain after mastectomy with reconstruction
- 817 of 3322 [25%]
- Severe or very severe maximum pain after prostatectomy
- 744 of 3543 [21%]
- Nausea on multiple days
- 1485 of 9300 (16%)
- Vomiting
- 139 of 10 812 [1%]
- Temperature higher than 38 °C
- 740 of 10 812 (7%)
- Severe or very severe shortness of breath
- 125 of 10 813 (1%)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Survey completion
- Surveys assigned
- 110 936
- Survey response rate
- 87%
- Median (IQR) surveys submitted
- 7 (4-8)
- Median (IQR) minutes per assessment
- 1.7 (1.2-2.5)
Original publication
Electronic Patient-Reported Symptoms After Ambulatory Cancer Surgery. JAMA Surg. Published 1 May 2024. doi:10.
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