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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2001

Measuring quality of life: Using quality of life measures in the clinical setting.

I J Higginson, A J Carr

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 307 papers, 18 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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307citing papers in PubMed, 18 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

307 citing papers in PubMed, 18 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Patient-reported outcome measures to evaluate postoperative quality of life in patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022
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  11. Comparison of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) between ileal conduit diversion and orthotopic neobladder based on validated questionnaires: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

I J HigginsonDepartment of Palliative Care and Policy, King's College London and St Christopher's Hospice, New Medical School, London SE5 9PJ. irene.higginson@kcl.ac.uk
A J Carr

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Quality of LifeClinical MedicineCosts and Cost AnalysisData CollectionDecision MakingHumansOutcome Assessment, Health CarePatient Care ManagementTreatment OutcomeProfessional Patient Relationship

Identifiers

PMID11375237
PMCPMC1120388

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