LuCApp has been designed by a multi-disciplinary team and developed through iterative sessions to improve patients’ real-time monitoring of symptoms and side effects during pharmacologic therapies for lung cancer. The impact of LuCApp on health related quality of life, cancer supportive care needs, burden for caregivers and resource consumption will be tested in a parallel randomised controlled trial. Sources of bias may include the different levels of ease of participants when using mobile technologies, the impossibility to blind them and different modes of questionnaires administration (app-based vs paper/phone-based)

The Lung Cancer App (LuCApp) study protocol: a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a mobile supportive care app for patients with metastatic lung cancer

Ciani, Oriana
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Cucciniello, Maria;Petracca, Francesco;Nicod, Elena;Tarricone, Rosanna
2019

Abstract

LuCApp has been designed by a multi-disciplinary team and developed through iterative sessions to improve patients’ real-time monitoring of symptoms and side effects during pharmacologic therapies for lung cancer. The impact of LuCApp on health related quality of life, cancer supportive care needs, burden for caregivers and resource consumption will be tested in a parallel randomised controlled trial. Sources of bias may include the different levels of ease of participants when using mobile technologies, the impossibility to blind them and different modes of questionnaires administration (app-based vs paper/phone-based)
2019
2019
Ciani, Oriana; Cucciniello, Maria; Petracca, Francesco; Apolone, Giovanni; Merlini, Giampaolo; Novello, Silvia; Pedrazzoli, Paolo; Zilembo, Nicoletta;...espandi
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