Nicole Henderson
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
During cancer treatment, patients can report symptoms like pain or nausea through electronic questionnaires. Their care team can then respond quickly.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
remote symptom monitoring
electronic patient-reported outcomes
ePRO
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2031
What they work on
- Identify patient engagement profiles for remote symptom monitoring in the national OncoPRO dataset using latent class analysis, and map their geographic and contextual distribution with geospatial methods.
- Model how cancer care sites differ in the barriers they face and strategies they use with cultural consensus and residual agreement analysis, and relate these to reach, adoption and effectiveness.
- Develop an Excel-based Precision Implementation Module with a practice-context mapping tool and a barrier forecast and strategy menu, refined through interviews and focus groups with OncoPRO participants.
- Pilot test the Precision Implementation Module at 3–5 novice OncoPRO sites to evaluate its feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness.
More about the research
This approach is called remote symptom monitoring (RSM) using electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs). It improves symptom control, quality of life, time on treatment and hospitalization rates, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now requires it in a national care program. Yet hospitals differ in their patients, infrastructure and resources, and early evidence shows wide variation in how well RSM works across sites. This project asks how those differences shape implementation, and how new clinical teams can plan for them.
Why it matters
A practical planning tool could help cancer clinics, especially those new to remote symptom monitoring, tailor the approach to their own patients and resources. This may help more patients in active cancer treatment, across varied care settings, gain the better symptom control and quality of life RSM has shown. It could also make the national rollout more efficient.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Alabama at Birmingham: 45 labs on PI Pages, $866M a year on research, 166 research doctorates a year.
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