Health-related quality of life measures in routine clinical care: Can FACT-Fatigue help to assess the management of fatigue in cancer patients?

Abstract

We provide evidence on the magnitude of change in FACT-F score that is associated with the perception by patients of improvement in fatigue and magnitude of change in score that is associated with worsening in fatigue.

Longitudinal Patient-Reported Performance Status Assessment in the Cancer Clinic Is Feasible and Prognostic

“…This highlights a particular strength of the electronic PRO (ePRO) method; patients are able to perceive small degrees of change. 24 Indeed, ePROs are often better predictors of survival than clinician-based measures, 14 which can be biased by imaging, laboratory data, and prior experiences, limiting appreciation of subtle yet meaningful changes in trajectory.…”

Quality of life and mood of patients and family caregivers during hospitalization for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

“…To assess the prevalence and severity of various symptoms, we examined specific items of the FACT‐BMT. We measured patients' fatigue using the FACT‐Fatigue subscale, which consists of 13‐items regarding fatigue symptoms occurring within the past week . Lower scores indicate a greater fatigue burden.…”

Health-related quality of life in patients with advanced colorectal cancer: results from a phase II study of S-1 combined with irinotecan (CPT-11)

“…Two patients completed the baseline evaluation only, leaving a total of 37 patients with both baseline and post-treatment [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Table 3 presents the modeled baseline, post-treatment, and differences between posttreatment and baseline scores for each of the QLQ-C30 and QLQ-CR38 transformed scores.…”

“…HRQOL results inform patients' and clinicians' treatment choices, particularly in advanced colorectal cancer [13]. In fact, cancer related symptoms such as fatigue, pain, or malnutrition were associated with poorer HRQOL [14][15][16]. The primary assessments were intended to determine the nature and magnitude of the HRQOL changes in several HRQOL scales during the course of treatment and to correlate these HRQOL changes with changes in the disease status of the patients.…”