Reply to H. Shojima et al

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Shojima et al 1 have provided comments and questions on our recent publication, 2 where we demonstrated that an electronic patient-reported outcome-based intervention, called eRAPID electronic patient self-Reporting of Adverse-events: Patient Information and aDvice (online patient reporting of disease-and treatment-related symptoms during chemotherapy, supplemented by an immediate severity-tailored patient advice) improved patient physical well-being early during the course of treatment (6 and 12 weeks) in a mixed population of 508 patients with cancer. The impact was in patients treated with curative intent (two thirds of the sample) and in those experiencing mild to moderate symptoms. Patients also reported better selfefficacy in symptom management.