ReviewQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2007
How can quality of life researchers make their work more useful to health workers and their patients?
Review in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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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.
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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.
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Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Minimal important differences for improvement in shoulder condition patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review to inform aBMJ open · 2019Pooled it
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- Voice-Related Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: A Systematic Review of Instrument Development and Validation.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2017Pooled it
- A systematic review of health-related quality of life instruments in patients with cancer cachexia.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2013Pooled it
- Measurement and interpretation of patient-reported outcomes in surgery: an opportunity for improvement.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2011Pooled it
- Two Gold Kiwifruit Daily for Effective Treatment of Constipation in Adults-A Randomized Clinical Trial.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Effect of weight maintenance on symptoms of knee osteoarthritis in obese patients: a twelve-month randomized controlled trial.Arthritis care & research · 2015Trial
- Benefits of Gender-Affirming Voice and Communication Training for Young People.Transgender health · 2025Article
- Interpretation of clinically meaningful change in cancer palliative care patients' quality of life: minimally important difference for EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025Observational
- Different doses and courses of omalizumab for patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2024Article
- Evaluating the credibility of anchor based estimates of minimal important differences for patient reported outcomes: instrument development and reliability study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2020Article
- The effect of dental treatment on oral health-related quality of life in adolescents.Clinical oral investigations · 2018Article
- Checklist to operationalize measurement characteristics of patient-reported outcome measures.Systematic reviews · 2016Review
- Development and Validation of a Short Version of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2015Article
- Integrating health-related quality of life findings from randomized clinical trials into practice: an international study of oncologists' perspectives.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2015Article
- Clinically meaningful interpretation of pediatric health-related quality of life in sickle cell disease.Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology · 2015Article
- Assessing individual and neighborhood social factors in child oral health-related quality of life: a multilevel analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2014Article
- ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2013Review
- Health related quality of life and mental distress after PCI: restoring a state of equilibrium.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2013Article
- Quality of life after gastrectomy for adenocarcinoma: a prospective cohort study.Annals of surgery · 2013Article
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Abstract
To make optimal use of data from randomized trials in clinical decision-making, clinicians require knowledge of the magnitude of treatment effects. Reports of trials including quality of life data often fail to report results that provide interpretable estimates of magnitude of effect. Strategies that investigators could use to remedy this problem include reporting mean differences between groups in relation to the minimal important difference and reporting the proportion of patients who benefit from treatment and the associated number needed to treat. Techniques are available that allow investigators to use the same strategies in reporting pooled estimates from meta-analyses, even when studies use different instruments to measure the same construct. These reporting approaches, as well as ensuring access to data from individual items, will also help those developing decision aids to use quality of life data.
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