Patient-reported symptom burden in routine oncology care: Examining racial and ethnic disparities.
Hailey W BullsPi-Hua ChangNaomi C BrownsteinJun-Min ZhouAasha I HooglandBrian D GonzalezPeter JohnstoneHeather S L JimPublished in: Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) (2021)
This study describes racial disparities in patient-reported symptom burden during routine oncology care, primarily observed in Black patients. Clinic-based electronic symptom monitoring may be useful to detect high symptom burden, particularly in patients who self-identify their race as Black or other. Future research is needed to reduce symptom burden in racially diverse cancer populations.