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. 1990;115(13):793-800.

[Quality of life as a target variable in oncologic clinical research]

[Article in German]
A Schmidt  1 , W Weidenhammer, S Groll
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  • PMID: 1700562

[Quality of life as a target variable in oncologic clinical research]

[Article in German]
A Schmidt et al. Zentralbl Chir. 1990.

Abstract

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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