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| Title |
Assessing Psychological Toxicity and Patient-Reported Distress as the Sixth Vital Sign in Cancer Care and Clinical Trials
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| Published in |
The AMA Journal of Ethic, May 2017
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| DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.5.stas1-1705 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thomas W LeBlanc, Arif H Kamal |
| Abstract |
As the number of available cancer therapies continues to grow, there is increasing interest in their impact on cancer patients' lived experiences. Screening for distress is one way to measure psychological dimensions of cancer patients' experiences, and doing so is increasingly part of standard operations at major cancer centers across the US. To date, however, most clinical trials have not adequately captured patients' experiences as part of their outcome assessments, so clinicians lack data needed to guide their responses to psychological features of patients' illness experiences. As distress becomes the "sixth vital sign" in routine cancer care, we argue that clinical trials should assess patients' experiences in the same way that they robustly screen for adverse events and toxicities. New interventions are needed to address distress. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 31 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 55% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| South Africa | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 9 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 48% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 26% |
| Scientists | 8 | 26% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 16 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 16 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 13% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 6% |
| Professor | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 25% |
| Unknown | 5 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 31% |
| Psychology | 3 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 44% |