Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2022
Publication Source
Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal
Abstract
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is the most common side effect of cancer treatment. Regular surveillance is recommended, but few clinical practice guidelines transparently assess study bias, quality, and clinical utility in deriving recommendations of screening and assessment methods. The purpose of this clinical practice guideline (CPG) is to provide recommendations for the screening and assessment of CRF for health care professions treating individuals with cancer. Following best practices for development of a CPG using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) Statement and Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) Guidelines Trust Scorecard, this CPG included a systematic search of the literature, quality assessment of included evidence, and stakeholder input from diverse health care fields to derive the final CPG. Ten screening and 15 assessment tools supported by 114 articles were reviewed. One screen (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer–Quality of Life Questionnaire–30 Core Questionnaire) and 3 assessments (Piper Fatigue Scale–Revised, Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy–Fatigue, and Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System [PROMIS] Fatigue-SF) received an A recommendation (“should be used in clinical practice”), and 1 screen and 5 assessments received a B recommendation (“may be used in clinical practice”). Health care providers have choice in determining appropriate screening and assessment tools to be used across the survivorship care continuum. The large number of tools available to screen for or assess CRF may result in a lack of comprehensive research evidence, leaving gaps in the body of evidence for measurement tools. More research into the responsiveness of these tools is needed in order to adopt their use as outcome measures.
Impact: Health care providers should screen for and assess CRF using one of the tools recommended by this CPG.
ISBN/ISSN
1538-6724
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Physical Therapy Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
Publisher
Oxford University Press (on behalf of the American Physical Therapy Association)
Volume
102
Issue
9
Peer Reviewed
yes
Keywords
Neoplasm, Outcome Assessment, Psychometrics
Sponsoring Agency
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)
eCommons Citation
Fisher, Mary I.; Cohn, Joy C.; Harrington, Shana; Lee, Jeannette; and Malone, Daniel, "Screening and Assessment of Cancer-Related Fatigue: A Clinical Practice Guideline for Health Care Providers" (2022). Physical Therapy Faculty Publications. 110.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dpt_fac_pub/110
Appendices
appendices_pzac120.pdf (394 kB)
Supplementary Data
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