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(Evaluation in clinical practice of the quality of life of patients with VADS cancer: an ethical justification or a fad?).
Moizan H., Mouret P., Schraub S., Hervé C.
Revue de laryngologie - otologie - rhinologie 131, 1 (2010) 45-50 - http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-00612252
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[Evaluation in clinical practice of the quality of life of patients with VADS cancer: an ethical justification or a fad?].
Hervé Moizan1, Pierre Mouret1, 2, Simon Schraub3, Christian Hervé1
1 :  LEM - Laboratoire d'éthique médicale et médecine légale
Université Paris V - Paris Descartes
Faculté de médecine, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006
France
2 :  Chirurgie
CHU Metz – Hôpital Bon Secours
Metz
France
3 :  Centre Paul Strauss
http://www.centre-paul-strauss.fr/
CRLCC Paul Strauss
Strasbourg
France
Now that the treatment of head and neck cancer has been perfectly standardized and the complications and sequelae are well known, many authors have started to investigate health-related quality of life (QoL). The use of generic and cancer-specific QoL instruments remains limited to the field of research, but can this approach be transposed to clinical oncology? This study was designed to answer this question by identifying the ethical problems related to QoL assessment. The methodology used is based on a questionnaire survey of a cohort of 40 volunteer patients, conducted some time after their initial treatment in order to optimally assess their expectations and questions in relation to these aspects. The validity of the instrumental approach cannot be guaranteed due to conceptual limits, and the sociocultural level and cognitive state of the target population. A more subtle approach to QoL assessment in routine clinical practice would consist of a mixed approach harmoniously combining quantitative and qualitative aspects based on questionnaire and interview.
Sciences du Vivant/Ethique
Sciences du Vivant/Cancérologie
Français
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Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture
Revue de laryngologie - otologie - rhinologie
internationale
2010
131
1
45-50

Adult – Aged – 80 and over – Cohort Studies – Female – Head and Neck Neoplasms – Health Surveys – Humans – Interviews as Topic – Male – Middle Aged – Quality of Life – Questionnaires – Socioeconomic Factors