ArticleExpert review of quality of life in cancer care2017
Quality of Life in Palliative Care.
Article in Expert review of quality of life in cancer care, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Therapeutic Interventions to Manage Oral Mucositis and Their Impact on Quality of Life in Cancer Patients: An Umbrella Review.Pain research & management · 2026Pooled it
- The benefits, barriers, and specific needs of palliative care for adults with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Global health action · 2025Pooled it
- Methodological challenges and potential solutions for economic evaluations of palliative and end-of-life care: A systematic review.Palliative medicine · 2024Pooled it
- The range and suitability of outcome measures used in the assessment of palliative treatment for inoperable malignant bowel obstruction: A systematic review.Palliative medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- How Does Symptom Management Affect Quality of Life in Palliative Care Patients? A Descriptive and Correlation Study.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2026Article
- Assessing nursing students' palliative care training needs and profiles: a cross-sectional study using K-means clustering.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Does context matter? A discrete choice experiment investigating the impact of palliative context on EQ-5D-5L health state valuation.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Randomized investigation of heart failure therapy in patients with advanced cancer at risk of cardiac wasting: Rationale and design of the EMPATICC trial.European journal of heart failure · 2025Article
- Effect of dignity therapy on meaning in life scores of cancer patients in palliative care.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- Toronto Aortic Stenosis Quality of Life Questionnaire (TASQ): Validation in Polish Patients with Aortic Stenosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Investigating the Multidomain Impact of Palliative Care on End-of-Life Patients: A Comprehensive Evaluation.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2025Article
- Quality of life and pain severity changes over time in patients with breast cancer who were referred for palliative oncology treatment in Indonesia: a hospital-based cohort study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Soothing the Itch: The Role of Medicinal Plants in Alleviating Pruritus in Palliative Care.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Assessment of needs, challenges, and re-design considerations for culturally sensitive provision and delivery of palliative care supports and services for older adults who prefer to age and die in place in diverse India.Annals of palliative medicine · 2024Review
- Translation and Validation of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative Care (Facit-Pal-14) Scale.Journal of caring sciences · 2024Article
- Flourishing at the end of life.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2024Article
- A longitudinal study of within-person trajectories in quality of life in patients receiving early palliative care.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
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- Engaging Mortality: Effective Implementation of Dignity Therapy.Journal of palliative medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionA main goals of palliative care is to improve the health-related quality of life (QOL) of patients with advanced illnesses. The objective of this narrative review is to provide an updated synopsis on the use of QOL questionnaires in the palliative care setting. AREAS COVERS: Focusing on the palliative cares setting, we will define QOL, discuss how QOL instruments can be used clinically and in research, review approaches to validate these questionnaires, and how they can be used in utility analyses. EXPERT OPINION/COMMENTARY: Several QOL questionnaires, such as EORTC-QLQ-C30, McGill QOL questionnaire and EQ-5D have been validated in the palliative care setting. However, significant gaps impede their application, including lack of determination of their responsiveness to change and minimal clinically important differences, the need to conduct more psychometric validation on QOL questionnaires among patients at various stages of disease trajectory, and the paucity of studies examining utility and cost-effectiveness. Further research is needed to address these knowledge gaps so QOL questionnaires can be better used to inform clinical practice and research.
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