Open AccessDo reminder emails and past due notifications improve patient completion and institutional data submission for patient-reported outcome measures?
Author(s) -
Stephanie L. Pugh,
Joseph P. Rodgers,
Jennifer Moughan,
R Bonanni,
Jaskaran Boparai,
IChun Chen,
James J. Dignam,
Deborah Watkins Bruner
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
quality of life research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1573-2649
pISSN - 0962-9343
DOI - 10.1007/s11136-020-02613-3
Subject(s) - quality of life research , patient reported outcome , public health , outcome (game theory) , medicine , patient data , psychology , family medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , nursing , internet privacy , computer science , mathematics , mathematical economics
NRG Oncology, part of the National Cancer Institute's National Clinical Trials Network, took efforts to increase patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) completion and institutional data submission rates within clinical trials. Lack of completion diminishes power to draw conclusions and can be a waste of resources. It is hypothesized that trials with automatic email reminders and past due notifications will have PROM forms submitted more timely with higher patient completion.