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. 2023 Jul 10;12:e46649. doi: 10.2196/46649

Table 1.

Patient-reported components used in the digital outpatient service.

Dignio component Short description Center using the component in its intervention
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) Standardized and individualized PROMs with numerical scales, single and multiple-choice answers, and free text.
  • Cancer: Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS-r) [43], Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scale assessing functional level [44], PROM version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) [45] and items on side effects of chemotherapy. The frequency of administration is per individual needs.

  • Lung: King’s Brief Interstitial Lung Disease questionnaire (K-BILD) [46] assessing self-reported health every 12th week, and items on side effects (vomiting, rash, dizziness, abdominal pain, or diarrhea), administered every 4th week.

  • Neuro: PRO-EPI: A multidimensional epilepsy PROM with items on seizures, medication, living with epilepsy, and need for health services developed by clinicians and the Norwegian Epilepsy Network for health care workers [47,48], administered every 11th week.

  • Pain: Items on pain on a visual analog scale, intensity, location, side effects (constipation, sweat, anxiety, etc), compliance with current treatment and need for health services, administered per medication plan when changes to this plan are made.

Physiologic measures

Blood pressure Bluetooth devices or BYODa
  • Cancer, on clinical indication



Body temperature Bluetooth devices or BYOD
  • Cancer, on clinical indication



Body weight Bluetooth devices or BYOD
  • Lung, weekly



Spirometry values Bluetooth device
  • Lung, weekly



Oxygen saturation Bluetooth device
  • Lung, weekly



Pulse Bluetooth devices or BYOD
  • Lung, weekly


aBYOD: bring your own device.