tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: " Quality of life data as prognostic indicators of survival in cancer patients: an overview of the literature from 1982 to 2008"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Quality of life data as prognostic indicators of survival in cancer patients: an overview of the literature from 1982 to 2008 | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Open Access Review Quality of life data as prognostic indicators of survival in cancer patients an overview of the literature from 1982 to 2008 Ali Montazeri1 2 Address Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research ACECR Tehran Iran and 2Public Health and Health Policy Division of Community Based Sciences University of Glasgow Glasgow UK Email Ali Montazeri - montazeri@ Published 23 December 2009 Received 10 August 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 102 doi l477-7525-7-102 Accepted 23 December 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 102 2009 Montazeri licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Health-related quality of life and survival are two important outcome measures in cancer research and practice. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between quality of life data and survival time in cancer patients. Methods A review was undertaken of all the full publications in the English language biomedical journals between 1982 and 2008. The search was limited to cancer and included the combination of keywords quality of life patient reported-outcomes prognostic predictor predictive and survival that appeared in the titles of the publications. In addition each study was examined to ensure that it used multivariate analysis. Purely psychological studies were excluded. A manual search was also performed to include additional papers of potential interest. Results A total of 451 citations were identified in this rapid and systematic review of the literature. Of these 104 citations on the relationship between