Commentary on the routine use of home-based symptom monitoring and management with electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO).

As Gabrielle B. Rocque, MD, MSPH notes in JAMA Network Open, "randomized clinical trials demonstrate that use of patient-reported symptoms can have marked impact on patient outcomes, including minimizing symptom burden, enhancing quality of life, reducing hospitalizations, increasing time receiving cancer treatments, and, in some studies, improving survival." Health care systems across the country have not rapidly adopted this approach to patient care, to ultimately improve care delivery. Read as she writes about the implementation gap and more.

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