Data · dataset · 2007
The Study of Quality of Life and Quality Adjusted Survival in Patients with Advanced Cancer
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The purposes of this study were to investigate the quality of life and quality adjusted survival (QAS) of terminal cancer patients.
Description
Purposive sampling was used for the terminal cancer patients in oncology and palliative care units in a university hospital. The instrument used in the study was McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire (MQOL) which had a good psychometric test.
Spss and S-plus software were used to analyze the data. Main results in the study included: The prevalence of symptoms and the severity of disturbance were raked as fatique, pain, and dry mouth. Self-rating to the satisfaction of the quality of life was 5.9 (range 0-10).
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The score of psychosocial domain was higher than the scores of physical and spiritual domains. The symptoms and physical conditions of the patients in palliative care unit were worse than those in oncology unit. However the impact of afraid of the future to the quality of life was lower in palliative care unit.
Predicted QAS in Taiwan normal patients was 48 times to the patients in oncology unit and 56.8 times to the patients whose ECOG-PSR was lower than grade 2. In conclusion, the symptoms and its impact to the quality of life of the patients in palliative care unit were more remarkable than those in oncology unit. Late referral to palliative care unit was still noted in these patients.
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Topics
- Inferred from text
- Cancer 75% · Health services and systems 73%
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| Harvard Dataverse | doi:10.6141/TW-SRDA-E90075-1 | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[disease].local:disease:cancer | enrichment · Harvard Dataverse | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4203 | enrichment · Harvard Dataverse | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (73%) |
| created_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /name |
| updated_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 |