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. 2019 Mar 25;2019(3):CD012387. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012387.pub2

Cooley 2014.

Trial name or title Title conference abstract: 'Point‐of‐care clinical decision support for cancer symptom management: results of a group randomized trial'
Methods RCT ‐ with intervention group (IG) and control group (CG)
Participants Cancer patients (no further specification in conference abstract)
Country: USA
Age: mean age of 63 years
Sex: 58% female
Inclusion criteria: unclear
Exclusion criteria: unclear
N randomised: n = 179, number of participants in each condition unclear.
N in analysis: unclear
Interventions Content of screen:BIO‐PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL‐BEING: The symptom assessment resulted in insight on participants’ pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and/or dyspnoea
Interventionist: Presumably use of a self‐completion tool, no interventionist for the screening act (“patients completed the web based symptom assessment”)
Intervention procedure:SI with co‐intervention to use screening results: Participants completed the symptom assessment prior to each visit for 6 months. A tailored report provided a longitudinal symptom report, and suggestions for management were provided to clinicians in the SAMI arm prior to the visit.
Conditions for implementation

  1. a system/person is needed to deliver and collect questionnaires, to automatically analyse and manage data, and to generate the feedback information for clinicians, including suggestions for management.

  2. development of the electronic system generating problem management suggestions.


Comparative condition: usual care condition
Length of follow‐up: 6 months
Outcomes Primary outcomes

  1. communication about symptoms

  2. the treatment outcome index (TOI) was the primary outcome for HRQoL


Secondary outcomes: management of the target symptoms (chart review)
Outcome time points: baseline; 2, 4, and 6 months
Starting date Unclear
Contact information First author conference abstract: Prof Dr Mary E Cooley, Dana‐Farber/Harvard Cancer Institute, Boston
Notes Information from conference abstract available, no further information received from study authors. Results paper in preparation