David Osoba

Effect of Cancer on Quality of Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides novel perspectives on topics not usually included in other books on cancer and quality of life, dealing with the special challenges related to the methodology involved in improving control of symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and pain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 853g
• ISBN-13: 9780849369773
• ISBN-10: 0849369770
• Artikelnr.: 34155533

Autorenporträt

Osoba\, David

Inhaltsangabe

1. Perspectives on Quality of Life and the Global Cancer Problem 2. Measuring Functioning, Well
Being, and Other Generic Health Concepts 3. Measuring the Effect of Cancer on Quality of Life 4. Prediction of Psychosocial Distress in Patients with Cancer 5. N of 1 Randomized Controlled Trials for Investigation of Quality of Life in Cancer 6. Quality of Life of the Treatment Process in Pediatric Oncology: An Approach to Measurement 7. A Practical Guide for Selecting Quality
of
Life Measures in Clinical Trials and Practice 8. Incorporation of Quality
of
Life Assessment into Clinical Trials 9. Statistical Analysis of Trials Assessing Quality of Life 10. Economic Evaluations of Cancer Care
Incorporating Quality
of
Life Issues 11. Uses (and Some Possible Abuses) of Quality
of
Life Measures 12. Cancer Patients' Unmet Support Needs as a Quality
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Life Indicator 13. The Spitzer Quality
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Life Index: Its Performance as a Measure 14. The EORTC Core Quality
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Life Questionnaire: Interim Results of an International Field Study 15. Quality of Life in Breast Cancer 16. Women's Sexuality Following Breast Cancer 17. Methodological Issues in Anti
Emetic Studies 18. Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting Side Effects Experienced by Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy Treatment 19. Selective 5
HT3 , Receptor Antagonists: A Novel Class of Antiemetics 20. Pain and Quality of Life: Theoretical Aspects 21. Pain Assessment in Cancer 22. Clinical Trials in Pain Control 23. Quality
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Life Research in the European Palliative Care Setting 24. Quality
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Life Research in Hospice Care