How far along the disease trajectory? An examination of the time-related patient characteristics in the palliative oncology literature.
Purpose: Adequate reporting of time-related patient characteristics is needed for research findings to be properly interpreted, applied, and reproduced. Our objective was to characterize the time-related patient characteristics in palliative oncology studies and to examine the differences in time-re...
| Publicado en: | Supportive Care in Cancer Vol. 24; no. 9; pp. 3997 - 4005 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Sep2016
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=117109113&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 117109113 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09414355 O1J jtl: Supportive Care in Cancer issn: 09414355 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2016 vid: 24 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 117109113 117109113 NLM27129839 117109113 10.1007/s00520-016-3225-z NLM27129839 PMC4967383 [Available on 09/01/17] 117109113 ppf: 3997 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: How far along the disease trajectory? An examination of the time-related patient characteristics in the palliative oncology literature. aug: au: Tayjasanant, Supakarn Bruera, Eduardo Hui, David affil: Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine Unit 1414, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard Houston 77030 USA sug: subj: Neoplasms Pathology Neoplasms Therapy Palliative Care Methods Study Design Case Control Studies Prospective Studies Oncology Methods Retrospective Design Funding Source Human Systematic Review ab: Purpose: Adequate reporting of time-related patient characteristics is needed for research findings to be properly interpreted, applied, and reproduced. Our objective was to characterize the time-related patient characteristics in palliative oncology studies and to examine the differences in time-related patient characteristics by various study characteristics.Methods: We extracted time-related patient characteristics including actual survival, performance status, cancer stage, disease trajectory, study setting, and eligibility criteria (life expectancy and performance status) from an established cohort of original palliative oncology articles published in 2004 and 2009.Results: Among 742 original articles, 409 (55 %) were case series. Only 247 (33 %) articles reported actual survival, 157 (21 %) reported actual performance status, 362 (49 %) cancer stage, and 392 (53 %) reported study setting. Based on all the available time-related characteristics, we were able to classify the studies into specific time-related categories in 378 (51 %) studies. Among these, only 47 (13 %) focused on patients in the last month of life. Compared to studies involving patients earlier in the disease trajectory, these studies were more likely to be case series (81 vs. 56 %, P = 0.005), retrospective (64 vs. 49 %, P = 0.03), and had a smaller sample size (median 20 vs. 61, P = 0.06).Conclusions: A majority of studies did not adequately report time-related patient characteristics. We also identified a gap in both the quantity and quality of studies involving patients in the last month of life. Our study has implications for study reporting and future directions for palliative oncology research. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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