Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 564-571 , March 2010

Single- vs. Multiple-Item Instruments in the Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Cancer

  • Shirley H. Bush, MBBS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    • McCulloch House, Southern Health Care Network, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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  • Henrique A. Parsons, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    • ,
  • J. Lynn Palmer, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    • ,
  • Zhijun Li, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    • ,
  • Ray Chacko, BBA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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  • Eduardo Bruera, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Eduardo Bruera, MD, Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 1414, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030, USA.

,Accepted 29 August 2009.

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 Eduardo Bruera is supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants: RO1NR010162-01A1, RO1CA122292-01, and RO1CA124481-01. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

 Some of the results of this paper are available as an online publish-only abstract (Permanent Abstract ID: e20528) from the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Orlando, Florida, May 29–June 2, 2009. This paper also has been partially presented at the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) 2009 International Symposium on Supportive Care in Cancer, Rome, Italy, June 25–27, 2009.

PII: S0885-3924(10)00085-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.08.006

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 564-571 , March 2010

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