Minimal clinically important differences in quality of life scores of oral cavity and oropharynx cancer patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2773-2781

  Binenbaum, Yoav ^a   Amit, Moran ^a   Billan, Salem ^a   Cohen, Jacob T ^a   Gil, Ziv ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; HEAD AND NECK 35 QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MINIMAL CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; MOUTH CANCER; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OROPHARYNX CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905115899     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3656-z     Document Type: Article

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