Randomized trials with quality of life endpoints: Are doctors' ratings of patients' physical symptoms interchangeable with patients' self-ratings?
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Quality of Life Research
- Vol. 6 (3) , 225-36
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026458604826
Abstract
The assessment of physical symptoms is a key com-ponent of quality of life studies in palliative care, but is often hampered by missing data from patient-completed questionnaires. In two large...Keywords
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