UNC Lineberger’s Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD, RN-BC, OCN, assistant professor in the UNC School of Nursing, was first and corresponding author of a paper published in the journal Supportive Care in Cancer. UNC Lineberger’s William A. Wood, MD, associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, was the senior author.
In the paper, Bryant, Wood and colleagues reported on the results of using a system to allow patients to report systems daily, using an electronic patient-reported outcomes system, in our inpatient bone marrow transplant unit could reduce symptom burden.
They found that daily use of electronic symptom reporting to nurses reduced the peak symptom burden, and also improved individual symptoms during the two weeks after transplant. They also reported that a multi-site clinical trial is warranted to further evaluate the system.
In addition to Bryant and Wood, other authors included Erin Coffman, MA of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Brett Phillips, MA, CCRP, of UNC Lineberger; Xianming Tan, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Gillings Department of Biostatistics; Elizabeth Bullard, RN, BSN of UNC Health Care; Rachel Hirschey, former post-doctoral fellowin the School of Nursing; Joshua Bradley, RN, BSN of UNC Health Care; Antonia V. Bennett, PhD, UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC Gillings Department of Health Policy and Management; Angela M. Stover, PhD, UNC Lineberger member and assistant professor in the UNC Gillings Department of Health Policy and Management; Lixin Song, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate Professor and Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar at the UNC School of Nursing, and UNC Lineberger’s Thomas C. Shea, MD, John William Pope Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research and medical co-director of the UNC Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program.
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