Pilot Study of a Symptom Monitoring Intervention for Hospitalized Patients With Cancer

"The electronic symptom monitoring intervention, Improving Management of Patient-Reported Outcomes Via Electronic Data (IMPROVED), consists of patients self-reporting their symptoms each day using a tablet computer. At morning rounds each day, the clinical team will view reports detailing their patients' symptom burden."

Participants receiving usual care will also self-report their symptoms each day using tablet computers. However, these patients' clinicians will not receive their symptom reports. Patients randomized to usual care will report their symptoms to their clinicians as they usually would, at their own discretion.