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Table 3 Equation for obtaining a Toxicity Burden Score (TBS) based on nurses and physicians equation and examples of TBS calculations using adverse events captured using the NCI-CTCAE (National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events)

From: A comparison of nurses’ and physicians’ perception of cancer treatment burden based on reported adverse events

  1. System organ class that are in bold are only present for either nurses or physicians
  2. *Physician equation was previously reported in Lee et al., 2018 [13]