Topic 377: Symptom Management and Intervention Roadmaps (STaIRS) (Moonshot)

NIH RePORTER · NIH · N44 · $1,500,000 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

Numerous adverse symptoms are under-detected in cancer care resulting1-3 in missed opportunities for intervention; leading to poor treatment adherence, avoidable hospitalizations, and worse morbidity and survival. The IOM proposed shaking up the current symptom paradigm from reactive to proactive, personalized, technology-enabled models of symptom care as a solution to this clinical quality crisis. Such proactive care models reduce symptom burden, emergency department use, and improve survival. While commercially-available symptom monitoring and clinical alerting applications proliferate, they lack personalized, computable algorithms for tailored, evidence-based clinical symptom management. The Carevive Care Planning System (CPS) is an exception, having commercially deployed symptom monitoring and assessment tools, clinician-facing content, and computable algorithms for patient self-management of symptoms since 2014, via a proprietary rules engine. These assets, combined with ONS content and Carevive’s extensive network of expert advisors and clients, will be leveraged in Phase I into the usercentered design of computable algorithms for clinician assessment and management of fatigue and constipation; integrating clinical data to facilitate personalized, evidence-based symptom care superior to existing reactive and proactive symptom care approaches. Phase I wireframes will be the basis for symptom expansion, extensive usability and field testing in Phase II, and ultimately efficacy testing and full-scale commercialization.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10085605
Project number
261201800021C-P00004-9999-1
Recipient
CAREVIVE SYSTEMS, INC.
Principal Investigator
Carrie Stricker
Activity code
N44
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$1,500,000
Award type
Project period
2018-09-24 → 2022-01-14