Life after surgical resection of a meningioma: a prospective cross-sectional study evaluating health-related quality of life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have evaluated the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with meningiomas. Here, we report the largest prospective, longitudinal cross-sectional cohort study of HRQoL in meningiomas to date, in order to identify possible actionable determinants of global HRQoL.

Methods

Adults who had undergone resection of a grade I intracranial meningioma and were in routine follow-up at a single large tertiary center underwent HRQoL assessment using the QLQ-C30 questionnaire administered opportunistically at follow-up visits. Averaged transformed QLQ-C30 scores at 12-month intervals were compared with scores from a normative reference population, with reference to known minimal clinically meaningful difference (CMD) in scores. To evaluate for possible de

SUBMITTER: Nassiri F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347082 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature