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Empirical Criteria for the Selection of Quality-of-Life Instruments for the Evaluation of Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell Transplantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Henry A. Glick ,
Elizabeth J. Shpall ,
C. F. LeMaistre ,
Thomas J. McCarron ,
Z. John Lu ,
M. Haim Erder  and
John A. Glaspy
Henry A. Glick
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth J. Shpall
Affiliation:
University of Colorado
C. F. LeMaistre
Affiliation:
South Texas Cancer Institute
Thomas J. McCarron
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Z. John Lu
Affiliation:
Amgen, Inc.
M. Haim Erder
Affiliation:
Amgen, Inc.
John A. Glaspy
Affiliation:
UCLA School of Medicine
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Abstract

We propose a method for selecting quality-of-life instruments for use in phase III trials using the convergent validity of patient responses collected in phase I and II clinical trials.Two generic and two disease-specific instruments were administered to patients with breast cancer undergoing peripheral blood progenitor cell mobilization and transplantation. They included the visual analog scale from the EuroQoL EQ5D instrument, the SF-36, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)-QLQ-C30, and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy instrument. No single instrument was found to have superior convergent validity in all domains, but the EORTC-QLQ-C30 seemed to perform better than the SF-36.

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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Summer 1998 , pp. 419 - 430
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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