Quality of life assessment in symptom management trials
Contributors: National Cancer Institute (U.S.); Community Clinical Oncology Program (National Cancer Institute (U.S.))
Series: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs -- 2007, no. 37; Journal of the National Cancer Institute -- 2007, no. 37
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bethesda, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780199542604
Subjects: Clinical trials; Outcome assessment (Medical care); Cancer -- Patients; Quality of life
Notes: "Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention, Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group, Community Clinical Oncology Program"

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction / L. Minasian, A. O'Mara; title: Translating the science of patient-reported outcomes assessment into clinical practice / D. Osoba; title: Outcomes research in cancer symptom management trials: the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) conceptual model / D.W. Bruner; title: Symptom burden: multiple symptoms and their impact as patient-reported outcomes / C.S. Cleeland; title: Differences in what quality-of-life instruments measure / C.E. Ferrans; title: Challenges to use of health-related quality of life for Food and Drug Administration approval of anticancer products / E.P. Rock ... [et al.]; title: Do general dimensions of quality of life add clinical value to symptom data? / C.M. Moinpour, G.W. Donaldson, M.W. Redman; title: Conceptual issues in symptom clusters research and their implications for quality-of-life assessment in patients with cancer / C. Miaskowski ... [et al]; title: Health-related quality of life measurement in symptom management trials / P.A. Ganz, P.J. Goodwin; title: Should health-related quality of life be measured in cancer symptom management clinical trials? Lessons learned using the functional assessment of cancer therapy / D. Cella ... [et al.]