EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL: The new standard in the assessment of health-related quality of life in advanced cancer?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-2

  Echteld, Michael A ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje ^a   van der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Deliens, Luc ^a,b   Klein, Martin ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COGNITION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 32444450261     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216306pm1090ed     Document Type: Editorial

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