Outcomes assessment in cancer /
Outcomes assessment in cancer /
edited by Joseph Lipscomb, Carolyn C. Gotay, Claire Snyder.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 662 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Health-related quality of life in cancer: general concepts and generic measures -- Assessing health-related quality of life during treatment -- Assessing health-related quality of life across the cancer continuum -- Measuring the experience and needs of cancer patients and caregivers -- Methodological considerations in applications to cancer outcomes research -- Modern psychometric theory in cancer outcomes research -- Assessing the economic impact of cancer -- Research and policy implications -- Invited papers.
Cancer touches the lives of millions worldwide each year. This is reflected not only in well-publicized mortality statistics but also in the profound - though much more difficult to measure - effects of cancer on the health-related quality of life, economic status, and overall well-being of patients and their families. In 2001, the US National Cancer Institute established the Cancer Outcomes Measurement Working Group to evaluate the state of the science in measuring the important and diverse impacts of this disease on individuals and populations. The findings and recommendations of the working group's 35 internationally recognized members are reported in Outcomes Assessment in Cancer, lucidly written and accessible to both researchers and policy makers in academia, government, and industry. Originally published in 2005, this volume provides a penetrating yet practical discussion of alternative approaches for comprehensively measuring the burden of cancer and the effectiveness of preventive and therapeutic interventions.
9780511545856 (ebook)
Cancer--Treatment--Evaluation.
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
RC270.8 / .O93 2005
616.99/406
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Health-related quality of life in cancer: general concepts and generic measures -- Assessing health-related quality of life during treatment -- Assessing health-related quality of life across the cancer continuum -- Measuring the experience and needs of cancer patients and caregivers -- Methodological considerations in applications to cancer outcomes research -- Modern psychometric theory in cancer outcomes research -- Assessing the economic impact of cancer -- Research and policy implications -- Invited papers.
Cancer touches the lives of millions worldwide each year. This is reflected not only in well-publicized mortality statistics but also in the profound - though much more difficult to measure - effects of cancer on the health-related quality of life, economic status, and overall well-being of patients and their families. In 2001, the US National Cancer Institute established the Cancer Outcomes Measurement Working Group to evaluate the state of the science in measuring the important and diverse impacts of this disease on individuals and populations. The findings and recommendations of the working group's 35 internationally recognized members are reported in Outcomes Assessment in Cancer, lucidly written and accessible to both researchers and policy makers in academia, government, and industry. Originally published in 2005, this volume provides a penetrating yet practical discussion of alternative approaches for comprehensively measuring the burden of cancer and the effectiveness of preventive and therapeutic interventions.
9780511545856 (ebook)
Cancer--Treatment--Evaluation.
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
RC270.8 / .O93 2005
616.99/406