The Added Value of Analyzing Pooled Health-Related Quality of Life Data: A Review of the EORTC PROBE Initiative

Conclusions:
The use of existing pooled data shows that it is possible to learn about general aspects of cancer HRQOL and methodology. Our work shows that setting up international pooled datasets holds great promise for understanding patients’ unmet psychosocial needs and calls for additional empirical investigation to improve clinical care and understand cancer through retrospective HRQOL analyses.

Source: JNCI - December 28, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Zikos, E., Coens, C., Quinten, C., Ediebah, D. E., Martinelli, F., Ghislain, I., King, M. T., Gotay, C., Ringash, J., Velikova, G., Reeve, B. B., Greimel, E., Cleeland, C. S., Flechtner, H., Taphoorn, M. J. B., Weis, J., Schmucker-von Koch, J., Sprangers, Tags: Review Source Type: research