Fallowfield L J
Communication and Counselling Research Centre, London Hospital Medical College.
J R Soc Med. 1993 Jan;86(1):10-2.
Appropriate assessment of quality of life parameters should be a mandatory requirement when determining the outcome of different treatments for breast cancer. Such measures provide useful, sometimes counterintuitive information concerning treatment costs and benefits and can help guide the clinician with management decisions. It is important to choose well-validated measures of quality of life to enable comparison between studies assessing the impact of different therapeutic modalities and psychosocial interventions.
在确定乳腺癌不同治疗方法的结果时,对生活质量参数进行适当评估应成为一项强制性要求。这些措施能提供有关治疗成本和效益的有用信息,有时甚至是与直觉相悖的信息,并有助于指导临床医生做出管理决策。选择经过充分验证的生活质量测量方法很重要,以便能够在评估不同治疗方式和心理社会干预影响的研究之间进行比较。