Transhiatal vs extended transthoracic resection in oesophageal carcinoma: Patients' utilities and treatment preferences

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 851-857

  De Boer, A G E M ^a   Stalmeier, P F M ^a   Sprangers, M A G ^a   De Haes, J C J M ^a   Van Sandick, J W ^a   Hulscher, J B F ^a   Van Lanschot, J J B ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Oesophagectomy; Treatment preference; Utilities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 0037128695     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600203     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Improving survival in gastric cancer: Review of 5-year survival rates in English language publications from 1970
2. Determinants of patients' treatment preferences in a clinical trial
3. Comparison of the rating scale and the standard gamble in measuring patient preferences for outcomes of gallstone disease
4. Quality of life in patients with oesophageal cancer
5. Relationship between quality of life instruments, health state utilities and willingness to pay in patients with asthma
6. Utility values and diabetic retinopathy
7. Assessment of values, utilities and preferences in cancer patients
8. Changing patterns in the incidence of esophageal and gastric carcinoma in the United States
9. Methodology for measuring health-state preferences-II: Scaling methods
10. Quality of life with carcinoma of the oesophagus
11. Identifying and valuing outcomes
12. Quality of life after cerebrovascular stroke: A systematic study of patients' preferences for different functional outcomes
13. Unstable preferences: A shift in valuation or an effect of the elicitation procedure?
14. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Day-care versus clinical observation
15. Conventional and chained standard gambles in the assessment of coronary heart disease prevention and treatment
16. Utility valuations for outcomes states of colorectal cancer
17. Systemic methotrexate therapy versus laparoscopic salpingostomy in tubal pregnancy. Part II. Patient preferences for systemic methotrexate
18. ASA physical status classification: A study of consistency of ratings
19. Utility assessment in cancer patients: Adjustment of time trade-off scores for the utility of life years and comparison with standard gamble scores
20. The 'utility' of the visual analog scale in medical decision making and technology assessment
21. Esophagectomy with or without thoracotomy. Is there any difference?
22. The will to live among HIV-infected patients
23. Transhiatal esophagectomy versus transthoracic esophagectomy with two-fields lymphadenectomy: Interim-results of a randomised trial
24. Recommendations of the panel on cost-effectiveness in health and medicine
25. Assessing the preferences of patients with psoriasis