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Assessing Clinical Significance in Measuring Oncology Patient Quality of Life: Introduction to the Symposium, Content Overview, and Definition of Terms

Abstract

The Clinical Significance Consensus Meeting Group of the Symposium on the Clinical Significance of Quality-of-Life Measures in Cancer Patients produced 6 articles regarding the clinical significance of quality of life (QOL) assessments in oncology. The 6 articles deal with the methods used to date: group-vs-individual clinical significance; single items vs summated scores; patient, clinician, and population perspectives; assessment of changes …

Authors

Sloan JA; Cella D; Frost MH; Guyatt GH; Sprangers MAG; Symonds T; Group CSCM

Journal

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 367–370

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

April 2002

DOI

10.4065/77.4.367

ISSN

0025-6196