Patient Reported Outcomes/Metrics Program Trial

Radiotherapy is an important adjunct in the interdisciplinary care of the palliative patient population, providing the potential for improved quality of life and symptom control, often translating into improved well-being, function and mobility. Changes in pain and QOL are frequently measured subjectively using patient-reported questionnaires. Objective measures such as respiratory rate, pulse rate, activity level and sleep duration and quality, may complement the currently available tools. Such tools may lead to better evaluation of the effects of palliative RT with real-time detection of potential complications and toxicity and the acute need for analgesic adjustments that can result from successful palliative RT.