Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Health Informatics Journal
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by McGee, M. R.
Right arrow Articles by Gray, P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by McGee, M. R.
Right arrow Articles by Gray, P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

A handheld chemotherapy symptom management system: results from a preliminary outpatient field trial

Marilyn Rose McGee

Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK, mcgeemr{at}dcs.gla.ac.uk

Phil Gray

Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK, pdg{at}dcs.gla.ac.uk

A symptom management system was developed and implemented on personal digital assistants (PDAs) for use by cancer outpatients in their daily management of chemotherapy symptoms. The system allowed patients to record their symptoms at home and send these data to their cancer centre. Patients could view personalized self-care advice and more general medical information. In addition, cancer care nurses were alerted about significantly high symptom scores and could contact the patient by phone. The system was distributed to a group of patients during two of their chemotherapy cycles. Patient interaction with the system was logged, and both patients and cancer nurses were surveyed via questionnaires and interviews in order to assess expectations of and attitudes towards the technology. Comparison was made of the quantitative and qualitative results so obtained. Implications for computer-assisted symptom management and the method of evaluation of such systems are considered.

Key Words: handheld systems • mobile computing • mobile medical informatics • symptom management

Health Informatics Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, 243-258 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1460458205055686
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?