Quality of life and health status in breast carcinoma.
Quality of life is of increasing importance in clinical oncology studies. When analysing publications concerning quality of life in breast cancer, however, the majority of the articles appear to study health status and not quality of life. Therefore five recommendations were formulated to apply reading a 'quality of life' article. With the use of these recommendations an article can be evaluated and the clinical significance can be assessed.
van der Steeg
A F W
AF
Department of Surgery, St Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 90151, 5000 LC Tilburg, The Netherlands.
De Vries
J
J
Roukema
J A
JA
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001294:Attitude to Health; D015982:Bias; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000145:classification