Researchers examined how an inpatient symptom monitoring intervention influences symptom burden and healthcare use among hospitalized patients with advanced cancer.

• A randomized clinical trial including 321 hospitalized patients with advanced cancer.

• No significant impact of an inpatient symptom monitoring intervention was observed on patients’ self-reported physical and psychological symptoms or their hospital length of stay and 30-day readmission rates.

• Overall inpatient symptom monitoring intervention did not appear to have a significant effect on symptom burden or health care use among hospitalized patients with advanced cancer.