Camilleri-Brennan J, Steele R J
University Department of Surgery, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK.
Br J Surg. 1998 Aug;85(8):1036-43. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00808.x.
The studies on patient-reported symptoms and quality of life following the treatment of rectal cancer were evaluated; guidelines for future quality of life studies in this field are proposed.
Relevant papers in the English language were identified via Medline from January 1970 to November 1997, supplemented by a manual search for similar articles.
Patients suffer various short- and long-term complications after treatment of rectal cancer, although the reported prevalence of such problems varies from study to study. Recent prospective studies have shown that, despite these problems, global quality of life scores as measured by generic questionnaires improve after surgery.
The methodological shortcomings of previous work must be rectified if quality of life studies are to have relevance in patient management.
对直肠癌治疗后患者报告的症状及生活质量的研究进行评估；提出该领域未来生活质量研究的指南。
通过医学文献数据库（Medline）检索1970年1月至1997年11月的英文相关论文，并人工检索类似文章作为补充。
直肠癌治疗后患者会出现各种短期和长期并发症，尽管此类问题的报告患病率因研究而异。近期的前瞻性研究表明，尽管存在这些问题，但通过通用问卷测量的总体生活质量评分在手术后有所改善。
如果生活质量研究要在患者管理中具有相关性，就必须纠正以往研究方法上的缺陷。
