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16624553

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-5-16
pubmed:abstractText
It is often difficult to recruit patients for palliative care studies and severe attrition must be expected resulting in biased findings. This may be avoided if equivalent information could be obtained from sources other than the patients. Therefore, we investigated whether physician assessments can be used to evaluate the patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Patient and physician assessments of the patients' HRQOL were obtained once a week for up to 13 weeks using EORTC QLQ-C30 items. The agreement between patients and physicians at first contact (N=115) and for the following 13 weeks combined (total N=263) was investigated. Significant differences between patient and physician assessments were observed for all HRQOL domains assessed. Physicians reported patients to have fewer problems/symptoms than patients did for all HRQOL domains except for physical and social functioning. The agreement between patients and physicians was poor. Using physician assessments may bias findings and cannot be recommended as a substitute for patient self-assessment in palliative care.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0959-8049
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1159-66
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Assessing health-related quality of life in palliative care: comparing patient and physician assessments.
pubmed:affiliation
The Research Unit, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Bispebjerg bakke 23, Opgang 20d, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark. map01@bbh.hosp.dk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't