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Tracking steps in oncology: the time is now

Overview of attention for article published in Cancer Management and Research, August 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (85th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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Title
Tracking steps in oncology: the time is now
Published in
Cancer Management and Research, August 2018
DOI 10.2147/cmar.s148710
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Juhi M Purswani, Nitin Ohri, Colin Champ

Abstract

Accurate evaluation of patients' health status is a key component of the workup, treatment, and follow-up of cancer patients. Assessments by clinicians (eg, performance status, toxicity grade) and patients (eg, quality of life) play a critical role in current practice but have significant limitations. Technological advances now provide an opportunity to track a new class of objective measures of patient activity, such as daily step counts. Here, we describe recent efforts to incorporate this technology into the field of oncology. We conducted a structured literature search using MEDLINE electronic database to identify published observational studies of tracking steps in cancer patients and trials of exercise programs for cancer survivors incorporating pedometers until February 2016. Data indicate that physical activity information may supplant existing scales for the assessment of cancer patients' functional capacity. Objective activity monitoring is poised to revolutionize the way health care providers assess cancer patients at the time of diagnosis, during treatment, and in the survivorship setting.

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Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 14%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Postgraduate 6 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Student > Master 4 8%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 14 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 12%
Sports and Recreations 4 8%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 19 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 April 2022.
All research outputs
#2,571,285
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Cancer Management and Research
#60
of 2,067 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,242
of 342,399 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cancer Management and Research
#5
of 86 outputs
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