Example 1: Radiation oncology department, University Hospital Halle, Germany - inpatient

Background

The Radiation Oncology Clinic of the Krukenberg Cancer Center, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Germany is an inpatient facility with 34 beds in the radiation oncology department and treats a very large spectrum of different cancer diagnoses with a broad variety of therapies, resulting in heterogenous individual patient issues. The electronic assessment of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (ePROM) was implemented in 2019.

Dr. Thomas Nordhausen is health and care scientist and research associate at the Institute for Institute of Health, Midwifery and Nursing Sciences at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He accompanied the implementation scientifically and explains in the following how the assessment works and how it was introduced.