EORTC QLQ-C30 descriptive analysis with the qlqc30 command

Caroline Bascoul-Mollevi (), Florence Castan, David Azria and Sophie Gourgou-Bourgade
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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

Stata Journal, 2015, vol. 15, issue 4, 1060-1074

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.

Keywords: qlqc30; health-related quality of life; QLQ-C30; functional scale; symptom scale; profile plot; longitudinal plot (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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