Journal article
Nurses provide valuable proxy assessment of the health‐related quality of life of children with Hodgkin disease
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We prospectively compared the proxy reporting of health-related quality of life (HRQL) by parents and nurses of children with Hodgkin disease to see how well they correlated with the children's report.
METHODS: Children with all stages of Hodgkin disease, their parents, and the clinic nurse were all asked to complete 4 different HRQL measures at 4 time points: 2 weeks after the first course of chemotherapy, on the third day of the …
Authors
Klaassen RJ; Barr RD; Hughes J; Rogers P; Anderson R; Grundy P; Ali SK; Yanofsky R; Abla O; Silva M
Journal
Cancer, Vol. 116, No. 6, pp. 1602–1607
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
March 15, 2010
DOI
10.1002/cncr.24888
ISSN
1097-0142