Changing the perspective: Current trends in the assessment of functional outcome in patients with head and neck cancer

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 126-131

  Tschiesner, Uta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck neoplasms treatment outcome; Health status; Otolaryngology (methods); Outcome assessment (health care); Quality of life; Questionnaire; Recovery of function

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; TREND STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955796097     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-011-0156-1     Document Type: Review

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