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EORTC QLQ-C30 descriptive analysis with the qlqc30 command

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  • Caroline Bascoul-Mollevi

    (Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier)

  • Florence Castan

    (Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier)

  • David Azria

    (Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier)

  • Sophie Gourgou-Bourgade

    (Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier)

Abstract

Health-related quality of life is often an endpoint in oncology clinical trials. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) developed the cancer-specific quality of life questionnaire (QLQ-C30), which includes five functions, nine symptoms, and a global health status. These questionnaires are completed by the patients themselves throughout the process of care. The recommended approaches for processing EORTC QLQ-C30 data are usually descriptive and graphic. Our aim was to develop a user-written command that provided an automatic descriptive analysis of EORTC QLQ-C30 data, consisting of profile plots per visit and longitudinal plots per functional and symptom scale. Copyright 2015 by StataCorp LP.

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  • Caroline Bascoul-Mollevi & Florence Castan & David Azria & Sophie Gourgou-Bourgade, 2015. "EORTC QLQ-C30 descriptive analysis with the qlqc30 command," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 15(4), pages 1060-1074, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:1060-1074
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