Assessment of the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer

Gough, Ian; Furnival, Colin; Schilder, L; Grove, William J.

doi:10.1016/0277-5379(83)90042-1

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“…The validation of these instruments (Gough et al, 1983;Selby et al, 1984;Spitzer et al, 1981) contributing elements in the HAD scale, worry and the inability to look forward to things, suggest that the cancer patient is anxious and worried chiefly because of worry about his/her future, and perhaps this problem area could be addressed more directly. The Spitzer scale appears to present a similar picture of inappropriate questions.…”

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“…The need to objectively measure quality of life during clinical trials of anti-cancer therapy is, however, widely recognised, as treatment is often toxic and is frequently given with palliative rather than curative intent. Several instruments have been developed to quantitate these subjective parameters (Coates et al, 1983;Gough et al, 1983;Padilla et al, 1983;Priestman & Baum, 1976;Presant et al, 1981;Selby et al, 1984;De Haas & Van Knippenburg, 1985). The question is no longer whether these factors should be measured, but what is the most reliable and practical means of obtaining these essential data.…”

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Who should measure quality of life, the doctor or the patient?

Slevin

Plant²,

Lynch³

et al. 1988

Br J Cancer

836

389

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Summary The extent to which a doctor or health professional can make a valid assessment of a patient's quality of life, anxiety and depression was investigated in a series of cancer patients. Doctors and patients filled out the same forms, viz. the Karnofsky, Spitzer, Linear Analogue Self Assessment Scales and a series of simple scales designed for this study, at the same time. Correlations between the two sets of scores were poor, suggesting that the doctors could not accurately determine what the patients felt. A further study examining the reproducibility of these scales demonstrated considerable variability in results between different doctors. It is concluded that if a reliable and consistent method of measuring quality of life in cancer patients is required, it must come from the patients themselves and not from their doctors and nurses.

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Who should measure quality of life, the doctor or the patient?

Slevin

Plant²,

Lynch³

et al. 1988

Br J Cancer

836

389

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“…⅐ Clinical trials should include primary outcomes related to quality of life and oncology treatment. ⅐ Quality of life assessment may include global measures [86][87][88][89] and site-specific measures. 90 Other tobacco use ⅐ Assess change in use of spit tobacco (e.g., chewing tobacco, snuff), pipes; cigars, or other forms of tobacco after a cancer diagnosis.…”

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Nicotine dependence treatment for patients with cancer

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Africano

Tercyak

et al. 2003

Cancer

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A semifluidized bed was proposed to allay bed plugging during the filtration of fines‐hydrocarbon suspensions. Mitigation of plugging was allowed by alternating semifluidization during capture with unconstrained fluidization for removal of deposits. Solids holdup conditions were established to prevent deposition in the fluidization section. The cyclic parameters were varied to allow efficient removal of deposits during washing. Analysis with a filtration model accounting for solids detachment in the fixed bed section revealed that the fluidization section favored growth of aggregate size entering the fixed bed. Analysis of the split ratios between fixed and fluidized bed heights revealed that the shallowest fluidization sections delayed deposition in the fixed bed. In cyclic operation, reversibility of the semifluidized bed was best recovered via gas injection during the washing stages. However, the filtration times in successive cycles shortened with increasing washing times but lengthened with increasing the washing superficial suspension velocity. © 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2008

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“…Clinicians treating women with advanced breast cancer have become increasingly concerned about their quality of life (Baum et al, 1980;Bell et al, 1985;Brinkely, 1985;Coates et al, 1987;Gough et al, 1983;Tannock et al, 1988), yet, the recognition of psychological distress is handicapped by patients' unwillingness to disclose any emotional problems and doctors' and nurses' reluctance to enquire (Maguire et al, 1980). Ways of improving the identification of psychological morbidity need to be found and a self-assessment approach warrants evaluation.…”

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Screening for psychiatric morbidity in patients with advanced breast cancer: validation of two self-report questionnaires

Hopwood

Howell²,

Maguire³

1991

Br J Cancer

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Eighty-one patients with advanced breast cancer completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Rotterdam Symptom Checklist (RSCL) to determine how well these questionnaires identified patients suffering from an anxiety state or depressive illness, compared with an independent interview by a psychiatrist who used the Clinical Interview Schedule. A threshold score was defined for each questionnaire which gave the optimal sensitivity and specificity. Seventy-five per cent of patients were correctly identified as suffering from an affective disorder by both the Rotterdam Symptom Checklist and by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Twenty-one per cent of 'normal' patients were misclassified by the Rotterdam Checklist and 26% by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. When the HADs anxiety and depression subscales were analysed separately, the performance of the anxiety items was superior to that of the depression items. Both questionnaires were found to have good predictive value and could be used in patients with advanced cancer to help screen out those with an affective disorder.

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Assessment of the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer

Cited by 172 publications

References 13 publications

Who should measure quality of life, the doctor or the patient?

Who should measure quality of life, the doctor or the patient?

Nicotine dependence treatment for patients with cancer

Screening for psychiatric morbidity in patients with advanced breast cancer: validation of two self-report questionnaires

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