The Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) is a 9-symptom validated self-assessment tool for reporting common symptoms in patients with cancer. We hypothesized that implementation and physician ...

The ESAS is a numeric scale allowing patients to assess their symptoms of pain, tiredness, nausea, depression, anxiety, drowsiness, lack of appetite, well-being and shortness of breath.

All participants had at least one Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) symptom score of 4 or higher on a 10-point scale, as well as an ESAS Global Distress Score of 20 or higher on a 90-point ...