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    In: Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Vol. 40, No. 16_suppl ( 2022-06-01), p. 1517-1517
    Abstract: 1517 Background: Strategies to improve transitions from the hospital to home for patients with cancer are considered an important component of quality, patient-centered care in oncology. CMS evaluates cancer hospital performance based on the 30-day unplanned hospital readmission rate, and this measure has been endorsed by the National Quality Forum. Nationally, the 30-day readmission rate for oncology patients ranges from 19%-27%. These readmissions come at high psychosocial, physical, and financial costs for patients and caregivers. A remote monitoring intervention that includes frequent contacts with the patient is likely to be effective in improving this transition. Methods: We evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and perceived value of a mobile health intervention to monitor and manage symptoms of adult medical and surgical oncology patients discharged from an NCI-designated cancer center to home. Patients were monitored for 10 days, which is the median time to readmission for an oncology patient. The technology supporting the program included: 1) a patient portal enabling daily electronic patient-reported outcomes assessments; 2) a pulse oximeter to provide data on blood oxygen level and heart rate; 3) alerts for concerning symptoms; 4) an application to allow staff to review and trend symptom data; 5) a secure platform to support communications and televisits between staff and patients; 6) an advanced feedback report to provide just-in-time patient symptom education. Feasibility and acceptability were evaluated through engagement (goal: 〉 50% response rate) and symptom alerts and perceived value was measured through a patient engagement survey that included a net promoter score (how likely the patient is to recommend the program to similar patients; goal 〉 0.7). Results: Between September 27, 2020 to December 31, 2021, the program enrolled 1,091 medical oncology (median age: 63 years, 55% female) and 4,222 surgical oncology patients (median age: 63 years,55% female). Of those enrolled, 65% of medical and 74% of surgical oncology patients participated in home remote monitoring by self-reporting symptom data. This resulted in 2,869 completed symptom assessment from medical and 16,009 completed assessments from surgical patients. Sixty-three percent of medical oncology assessments resulted in a yellow (moderate) or red (severe) symptom alert compared with 26% for surgical oncology patients. Pain was the predominant symptom generating red alerts for medical oncology patients (17%). Fifty-two percent of patients completed the engagement survey, and the net promoter score was 0.82. Conclusions: A remote monitoring program after discharge was feasible, acceptable, and perceived to be of value by oncology patients discharged from a cancer center. Surgical and medical patients have similar response rates but differ in symptom burden. Future work will evaluate the value of a remote symptom monitoring platform in decreasing readmissions.
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    ISSN: 0732-183X , 1527-7755
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    Publisher: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
    Publication Date: 2022
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    In: Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Vol. 39, No. 15_suppl ( 2021-05-20), p. 1554-1554
    Abstract: 1554 Background: Cancer patients face an increased risk of developing acute complications from COVID-19. Remote monitoring can help with the critical need for early detection of symptoms among those diagnosed with COVID-19, enabling timely symptom management that can mitigate clinical deterioration. In response to this need, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center fast-tracked a program to monitor patients with COVID-19 from home, using an electronic symptom-tracking questionnaire and digital pulse oximeter to track patients’ status and alert care teams to intervene if symptoms worsened. A multi-disciplinary group composed of Oncology providers, advanced practice providers, nursing, nursing informatics and biomedical informatics formed to manage the program. Methods: Memorial Sloan Kettering launched a remote monitoring program for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 25, 2020. All patients testing positive for COVID-19 were enrolled in the program and asked to complete a daily symptom tracking questionnaire accessed through their patient portal or administered verbally over the phone. A subset of high risk patients were also provided with a digital pulse oximeter linked to their patient portal and capable of transmitting readings directly to the care team. Clinicians received alerts for patients reporting symptoms or an oxygen saturation below 92%. Alerts resulted in an immediate response from the care team to determine if the patient needed additional care. We retrospectively evaluated the program usage, outcomes and learnings from March 25, 2020 to December 22, 2020. Results: In total, 1,721 patients were enrolled in the program from March 25, 2020 to December 22, 2020. Among these, 210 were deemed high risk patients who received a pulse oximeter in addition the daily symptom questionnaire. Over this period, 27% of patients triggered an alert from an electronic symptom questionnaire, and 63% of patients with a pulse oximeter triggered an alert from their device. Among patients who triggered an alert of any kind, 3% were triaged to a higher level of care. Patients reported that the program was highly valued and alleviated anxiety about their care. Iterative improvements were made to the program over time in response to the evolving knowledge about care for patients with COVID-19. Conclusions: Memorial Sloan Kettering was able to quickly implement a program to detect and triage symptoms among patients with COVID-19 and cancer. Refinements were made over time to many aspects of the program in response to learnings about care related to COVID-19, including to clinical eligibility, alert criteria, monitoring duration and workflows. The program also demonstrated value for patients who felt more comfortable with their care while being monitored remotely. This program established a successful model for remote monitoring of patients with COVID-19 with the potential to be scaled to other institutions or clinical areas.
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  • 3
    In: Cancer, Wiley, Vol. 127, No. 3 ( 2021-02), p. 359-371
    Abstract: Integration of an electronic patient‐reported outcomes (ePROs) program into a head and neck oncology practice is feasible and will allow for the measurement of outcomes. This program can be used as a model for the future development of ePROs programs across oncology practices.
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    ISSN: 0008-543X , 1097-0142
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    Publisher: Wiley
    Publication Date: 2021
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    In: Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Vol. 41, No. 16_suppl ( 2023-06-01), p. 1559-1559
    Abstract: 1559 Background: Though smoking is a major risk factor for lung cancer, it has been a challenge to collect patients’ smoking history information accurately from the EH due to data inconsistency and incompleteness. To address these challenges, we utilized a weak supervision methodology to automatically annotate smoking status of patients with lung cancer and correlated it with tumor characteristics. Methods: We analyzed 6,355 patients with lung cancer who underwent tumor profiling with MSK-IMPACT. In total, 14,555 unstructured clinical notes were extracted from EHR at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The weak supervision methodology used a generative model for intermediate labels that were subsequently tuned by machine-learning classifier to generate the final labels. Clinical notes from a randomly sampled set of 564 patients were manually curated and used for performance assessment. The rest of the patients were split into training and validation datasets used for model training and hyperparameter tuning. Pack years were also extracted from clinical notes using Natural Language Processing. We next conducted multivariate analyses for primary and metastatic tumor samples separately to correlate smoking metrics with tumor characteristics including tumor mutation burden (TMB) and chromosomal instability, as inferred by the fraction of genome altered (FGA) after controlling for age at sequencing, gender, histological subtypes, ancestry, coverage and tumor purity. Results: The weak supervision classifier had almost perfect performance for 2-label classification model (ever smokers and never smokers) with macro F1-score: 97.7%, balanced accuracy: 97.1%, 97.1%, precision:98.4%, 98.4% and recall: 99.5%,94.6% respectively. For 3-label classification model (never smoker, former smoker, and current smoker), the macro F1-score was 79.8%; balanced accuracy: 97.1%, 86.7%, 71.2%, precision: 93.9%, 90.1%, 61.7%, recall: 96.1%, 93.3%, 46.0% respectively. Analyzing genomic data, we observed that smoking status (smoker vs. never smoker) and pack-years were associated with TMB in both primary and metastatic tumor samples (p 〈 2e-16). FGA was marginally associated with smokers compared to never smokers in primary tumor samples (p=0.06). Among smokers diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, significantly high FGA in primary tumor samples was observed in males compared to females after adjusting for pack-years and other variables (p= 3.3e-3). Conclusions: We demonstrated high performance of our approach for automated curation of smoking history from EHR. The genomic results confirmed distinct mutational patterns associated with smoking behavior in patients with lung cancer. We are currently exploring multimodal approaches by including chest CT images and “time of quitting” to improve performance of the 3-class model.
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    In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 30, No. 5 ( 2023-04-19), p. 915-922
    Abstract: Electronic health record (EHR) data are a valuable resource for population health research but lack critical information such as relationships between individuals. Emergency contacts in EHRs can be used to link family members, creating a population that is more representative of a community than traditional family cohorts. Materials and Methods We revised a published algorithm: relationship inference from the electronic health record (RIFTEHR). Our version, Pythonic RIFTEHR (P-RIFTEHR), identifies a patient’s emergency contacts, matches them to existing patients (when available) using network graphs, checks for conflicts, and infers new relationships. P-RIFTEHR was run on December 15, 2021 in the Northwestern Medicine Electronic Data Warehouse (NMEDW) on approximately 2.95 million individuals and was validated using the existing link between children born at NM hospitals and their mothers. As proof-of-concept, we modeled the association between parent and child obesity using logistic regression. Results The P-RIFTEHR algorithm matched 1 157 454 individuals in 448 278 families. The median family size was 2, the largest was 32 persons, and 247 families spanned 4 generations or more. Validation of the mother–child pairs resulted in 95.1% sensitivity. Children were 2 times more likely to be obese if a parent is obese (OR: 2.30; 95% CI, 2.23–2.37). Conclusion P-RIFTEHR can identify familiar relationships in a large, diverse population in an integrated health system. Estimates of parent–child inheritability of obesity using family structures identified by the algorithm were consistent with previously published estimates from traditional cohort studies.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1067-5027 , 1527-974X
    Language: English
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Publication Date: 2023
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    In: Supportive Care in Cancer, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 29, No. 2 ( 2021-02), p. 543-546
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0941-4355 , 1433-7339
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2021
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    American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) ; 2021
    In:  Journal of Clinical Oncology Vol. 39, No. 15_suppl ( 2021-05-20), p. 1585-1585
    In: Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Vol. 39, No. 15_suppl ( 2021-05-20), p. 1585-1585
    Abstract: 1585 Background: Despite growing evidence of mind-body therapies for physical and psychological health among patients with cancer, their access remains limited. The COVID-19 pandemic has further disrupted the delivery of necessary cancer and supportive care; thus, the need to support patients with cancer is unprecedented. To expand the reach and access of mind-body therapies, we developed, implemented, and evaluated a novel virtual mind-body program for patients with cancer. Methods: We rapidly developed a 7-day a week virtual mind-body program, Integrative Medicine at Home (IM@Home), for patients with cancer (ages ≥18 years) and deployed it on April 1 st , 2020. IM@Home included mind-body group therapy classes in fitness, meditation, yoga, dance, tai chi, and music delivered using Zoom video conferencing. Classes ranged from 30-45 minutes and were led by an integrative medicine clinician. Patients had the option to register for a 1-month, 3-month, or 6-month membership to gain unlimited access to all virtual mind-body classes. Multi-method evaluation was conducted using the RE-AIM conceptual framework to guide surveys and qualitative interviews. Surveys were analyzed using descriptive statistics and interviews were analyzed using grounded theory. Results: Between April 2020 and January 2021, IM@Home registered over 32,000 class participants, with a weekly average attendance of 700-800 participants. In a 4-month post-deployment survey (n = 131), nearly all participants were satisfied with IM@Home (93.9%) and would recommend the program to friends and family (95.4%). A majority of participants also found IM@Home to be simple to use (87.0%) and said the program had a variety of classes that interested them (93.1%). Three-quarters of participants (74.8%) were taking 3 to 7 classes a week (range: 1 to 15 classes), among which the most popular classes were fitness (88.7%), chair yoga (37.1%), and tai chi (33.1%). Most participants preferred a 3-month membership (51.6%), followed by a 6-month membership (19.5%). In qualitative interviews (n = 30), participants reported IM@Home helped them to: 1) maintain structured routines and stay motivated to exercise; 2) cope with COVID-19-related and cancer-related stressors; and 3) connect with their fellow cancer patient community and foster social relationships during a time of isolation. Conclusions: Virtual mind-body programming, through IM@Home, reached many patients with cancer to address their physical and psychological challenges during COVID-19. As patients with cancer experience high physical and psychological symptom burden following diagnosis, future clinical trials are needed to evaluate the specific effects of IM@Home when integrated into active treatment and survivorship care.
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    Oxford University Press (OUP) ; 2019
    In:  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 26, No. 2 ( 2019-02-01), p. 115-123
    In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 26, No. 2 ( 2019-02-01), p. 115-123
    Abstract: To determine the effects of an inpatient portal intervention on patient activation, patient satisfaction, patient engagement with health information, and 30-day hospital readmissions. Methods and Materials From March 2014 to May 2017, we enrolled 426 English- or Spanish-speaking patients from 2 cardiac medical-surgical units at an urban academic medical center. Patients were randomized to 1 of 3 groups: 1) usual care, 2) tablet with general Internet access (tablet-only), and 3) tablet with an inpatient portal. The primary study outcome was patient activation (Patient Activation Measure-13). Secondary outcomes included all-cause readmission within 30 days, patient satisfaction, and patient engagement with health information. Results There was no evidence of a difference in patient activation among patients assigned to the inpatient portal intervention compared to usual care or the tablet-only group. Patients in the inpatient portal group had lower 30-day hospital readmissions (5.5% vs. 12.9% tablet-only and 13.5% usual care; P = 0.044). There was evidence of a difference in patient engagement with health information between the inpatient portal and tablet-only group, including looking up health information online (89.6% vs. 51.8%; P  & lt; 0.001). Healthcare providers reported that patients found the portal useful and that the portal did not negatively impact healthcare delivery. Conclusions Access to an inpatient portal did not significantly improve patient activation, but it was associated with looking up health information online and with a lower 30-day hospital readmission rate. These results illustrate benefit of providing hospitalized patients with real-time access to their electronic health record data while in the hospital. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01970852.
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    ISSN: 1067-5027 , 1527-974X
    Language: English
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Publication Date: 2019
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    American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) ; 2014
    In:  Journal of Clinical Oncology Vol. 32, No. 15_suppl ( 2014-05-20), p. 1549-1549
    In: Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Vol. 32, No. 15_suppl ( 2014-05-20), p. 1549-1549
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    Oxford University Press (OUP) ; 2019
    In:  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 26, No. 8-9 ( 2019-08-01), p. 730-736
    In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 26, No. 8-9 ( 2019-08-01), p. 730-736
    Abstract: We sought to assess the quality of race and ethnicity information in observational health databases, including electronic health records (EHRs), and to propose patient self-recording as an improvement strategy. Materials and Methods We assessed completeness of race and ethnicity information in large observational health databases in the United States (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and Optum Labs), and at a single healthcare system in New York City serving a racially and ethnically diverse population. We compared race and ethnicity data collected via administrative processes with data recorded directly by respondents via paper surveys (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems). Respondent-recorded data were considered the gold standard for the collection of race and ethnicity information. Results Among the 160 million patients from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and Optum Labs datasets, race or ethnicity was unknown for 25%. Among the 2.4 million patients in the single New York City healthcare system’s EHR, race or ethnicity was unknown for 57%. However, when patients directly recorded their race and ethnicity, 86% provided clinically meaningful information, and 66% of patients reported information that was discrepant with the EHR. Discussion Race and ethnicity data are critical to support precision medicine initiatives and to determine healthcare disparities; however, the quality of this information in observational databases is concerning. Patient self-recording through the use of patient-facing tools can substantially increase the quality of the information while engaging patients in their health. Conclusions Patient self-recording may improve the completeness of race and ethnicity information.
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    ISSN: 1527-974X
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    Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Publication Date: 2019
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