Factors associated with nonparticipation in one-year quality-of-life assessment in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1435-1443

  Gourin, Christine G ^a   Kaboli, Kavon C ^a   Boyce, Brian J ^b   Burkhead, Lori M ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Dropout; Head and neck neoplasms; Nonoperative treatment; Nonparticipation; Quality of life; Radiation; Squamous cell cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONRESPONSE BIAS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77954413900     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20952     Document Type: Article

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