Oral Presentation Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

The joys AND heartache of implementing PROMs in routine care (#135)

Afaf Girgis 1 2
  1. Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  2. Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool

Significant patient and survival benefits and reduced emergency department presentations have been demonstrated through the routine assessment and clinical utilisation of electronically collected patient-reported outcomes (ePROs). However, beyond the research environment, such benefits will not be fully realised on a large scale without the implementation of ePROs as routine care. Since 2011, our team has developed an ePRO system. PROMPT-Care, and demonstrated its acceptability, feasibility and efficacy in a broad population of cancer patients in NSW. During 2020, through collaboration with our local health service and the Cancer Institute NSW, we embarked on implementing ePROs into routine care in the cancer centres in South West Sydney Local Health District. This presentation will provide an overview of our strategies for facilitating implementation of ePROs with lung cancer patients, informed by the RE-AIM implementation framework, and our progress since GO-Live in November 2020.