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Open AccessClinically Meaningful Change for Physical Performance: Perspectives of the ICFSR Task Force
For clinical studies of sarcopenia and frailty, clinically meaningful outcome measures are needed to monitor disease progression, evaluate efficacy of interventions, and plan clinical trials. Physical performa...
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The functional assessment of cancer therapy–BRM (FACT–BRM): A new tool for the assessment of quality of life in patients treated with biologic response modifiers
Purpose: This paper reports on the development and validation of two biologic response modifier (BRM) subscales for use with the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) quality of life (QOL) que...
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Quality of life in breast cancer patients: Validation of a FACT-B Malayalam version
Background: Recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of cancer have led to an increase in cancer survival, and hence, there is a greater emphasis on quality beside quantity of survival. Develo** countries to...
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Translation and validation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Bone Marrow Transplant (FACT-BMT) Version 4 quality of life instrument into traditional Chinese
The need for a culturally sensitive instrument to assess quality of life (QOL) of patients in international oncology clinical trials has been well documented. This study was designed to evaluate the psychometr...
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Cross-cultural validation of an international questionnaire, the General Measure of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale (FACT-G), for Japanese
The General Measure of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale (FACT-) was developed in an English-speaking culture (USA). To determine if FACT-G could be used in Japan, a cross-cultural validation w...
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index Deutsche Version
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Development of three African language translations of the FACT-G
This pilot study investigated the feasibility of translating a quality of life instrument, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – General version (FACT-G) and the breast cancer version (FACT-B), which c...