Quality of life as a target variable in oncologic clinical research
Schmidt, A.; Weidenhammer, W.; Groll, S.
Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 115(13): 793-800
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-409X PMID: 1700562 Document Number: 353481
The change of target variables in palliative cancer treatment led to a new evaluation of quality of life. Its use as a target variable to discriminate different therapies is problematic. Investigations with a patient-questionnaire assessing quality of life showed that the validity of this term is difficult to judge. At present it should be used in clinical research as an accompanying variable only.
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