Reducing Symptom Distress in Patients With Advanced Cancer Using an e-Alert System for Caregivers: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials

David H Gustafson   ¹ , PhD ;   Lori L DuBenske   ² , PhD ;   Amy K Atwood   ¹ , PhD ;   Ming-Yuan Chih   ³ , PhD ;   Roberta A Johnson   ^{1, 4} , MA, MAEd ;   Fiona McTavish   ¹ , MS ;   Andrew Quanbeck   ^{1, 4} , PhD ;   Roger L Brown   ⁵ , PhD ;   James F Cleary   ⁶ , MD ;   Dhavan Shah   ⁷ , PhD

¹ Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

² School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

³ College of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

⁴ School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

⁵ School of Nursing, Nursing Research Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

⁶ Medical Oncology Section, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

⁷ Mass Communication Research Center, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States