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‘Ensuring dignified life’: how an app keeps advanced cancer patients out of hospital

Advanced-stage cancer patients could spend half as long in hospital and avoid more than a third of unplanned admissions if a symptom-tracking mobile app is added to their routine care, according to new research from the University of Hong Kong. The SUPPORT+ mobile app, developed by HKU’s clinical oncology department, provides symptom-management information and a direct line of communication with…

‘Ensuring dignified life’: how an app keeps advanced cancer patients out of hospital

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