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Symptom management is a cornerstone of clinical care, particularly for patients with chronic conditions. Yet patients’ symptoms and physical impairments go undetected by health care providers as much as half the time, particularly between clinic visits. As a result, we miss opportunities to intervene and alleviate suffering. Moreover, incomplete documentation of this information in the electronic health record (EHR) limits our ability to understand key patient outcomes when we aggregate EHR data for comparative effectiveness research or quality-of-care assessments.
E. Basch (Fri,) studied this question.