Warr D, Feld R
Department of Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Curr Opin Oncol. 1996 Jul;8(4):279-83. doi: 10.1097/00001622-199607000-00003.
Supportive care interventions are usually given with the intent of improving quality of life. Until recently, however, even studies of palliative interventions have infrequently incorporated some measure of overall benefit. This article reviews those recent supportive care studies that have attempted to measure either quality of life or some benefit other than improvement in a single symptom. Some palliative chemotherapy studies did indeed demonstrate measurable improvement in overall well-being, and some commonly cited supportive approaches were associated with a significant detriment in health-related quality of life.
支持性护理干预措施通常旨在提高生活质量。然而，直到最近，即使是姑息性干预措施的研究也很少纳入某种衡量总体益处的指标。本文回顾了最近那些试图衡量生活质量或单一症状改善以外的其他益处的支持性护理研究。一些姑息性化疗研究确实表明总体幸福感有可衡量的改善，而一些常被提及的支持性方法与健康相关生活质量的显著下降有关。
