Identification of Patient-Reported Outcome Phenotypes Among Oncology Patients With Palliative Care Needs.
Tara L KaufmannKelly D GetzJesse Yenchih HsuAntonia V BennettSamuel U TakvorianArif H KamalAngela M DeMichelePublished in: JCO oncology practice (2021)
Oncology patients referred to outpatient palliative care in a real-world setting can be differentiated into clinically meaningful phenotypes using brief, routinely collected PRO measures. Latent modeling provides a mechanism to use patient-reported data on a population level to identify distinct subgroups of patients with unmet palliative needs.