Table 3.
Overview of symptom reports, clinical alerts, and responses.
| Symptoms (sorted by relative occurrence above threshold) | Number of symptom reports, na | Reports above threshold and clinical alert sent, n (%) | Of those: response to clinical alerts | ||
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Symptom already known or no intervention necessary, n (%) | Intervention initiated, n (%) | No response documented by nurse, n (%) |
| Dyspnea | 387 | 112 (28.9) | 21 (18.8) | 33 (29.5) | 58 (51.8) |
| Pain | 1013 | 282 (27.8) | 98 (34.8) | 102 (36.2) | 82 (29.1) |
| Fatigue | 1012 | 216 (21.3) | 89 (41.2) | 85 (39.4) | 42 (19.4) |
| Back pain | 438 | 92 (21.0) | 41 (44.6) | 38 (41.3) | 13 (14.1) |
| Sleep disturbances | 1014 | 180 (17.8) | 97 (53.9) | 50 (27.8) | 33 (18.3) |
| Diarrhea | 1014 | 164 (16.2) | 62 (37.8) | 50 (30.5) | 52 (31.7) |
| Muscle cramps | 589 | 75 (12.7) | 32 (42.7) | 27 (36.0) | 16 (21.3) |
| Emotional burden | 781 | 66 (8.5) | 17 (25.8) | 21 (31.8) | 28 (42.4) |
| Polyneuropathy | 781 | 60 (7.7) | 31 (51.7) | 26 (43.3) | 3 (5.0) |
| Nausea or vomiting | 1014 | 57 (5.6) | 12 (21.1) | 12 (21.1) | 33 (57.9) |
| Edema | 572 | 25 (4.4) | 6 (24) | 10 (40.0) | 9 (36) |
| Constipation | 1012 | 37 (3.7) | 8 (21.6) | 14 (37.8) | 15 (40.5) |
| Cough | 369 | 13 (3.5) | 5 (38.5) | 6 (46.2) | 2 (15.4) |
| Weight loss | 71 | 2 (2.8) | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 0 (0) |
| Burning or sore eyes | 571 | 13 (2.3) | 4 (30.8) | 9 (69.2) | 0 (0) |
| Blurred vision | 573 | 15 (2.6) | 7 (46.7) | 5 (33.3) | 3 (20.0) |
| Rash | 762 | 17 (2.2) | 0 (0) | 6 (35.3) | 11 (64.7) |
| Dysgeusia | 324 | 2 (0.6) | 0 (0) | 2 (100.0) | 0 (0) |
| Fever | 800 | 3 (0.4) | 1 (33.3) | 2 (66.7) | 0 (0) |
| Infusion-related reaction | 31 | 0 (0) | N/Ab | N/A | N/A |
| Other symptoms (write-in option) | 808 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
aThe number of symptom reports differ per domain as item lists were tailored to treatments and not every symptom was in every assessment.
bN/A: not applicable as it was not possible to document an intervention for this symptom category in the electronic system, or the number of reports above the threshold was 0.