Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to Outcomes Assessment in Cancer
- 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
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to Outcomes Assessment in Cancer
- 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
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Outcomes Assessment in CancerMeasures, Methods and Applications, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004