Patients’ and health professionals’ understanding of and preferences for graphical presentation styles for individual-level EORTC QLQ-C30 scores

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 595-604

  Kuijpers, W ^a   Giesinger, J M ^a,b   Zabernigg, A ^c   Young, T ^d   Friend, E ^e   Tomaszewska, I M ^f   Aaronson, N K ^a   Holzner, B ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e BASINGSTOKE AND NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Graphical presentation; Health professionals; Patient reported outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EORTC QLQ-C30 SCORE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUROPE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84958763494     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-015-1107-3     Document Type: Article

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