Health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer in the palliative phase: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The occurrence of colorectal cancer has doubled over the last 50 years and many people are living with the disease in the palliative phase. Therefore, it is important that healthcare personnel have knowledge about the patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aim of this review is to investigate how HRQoL is reported by means of different measures for patients in the palliative phase of colorectal cancer and examine which sociodemographic and clinical factors are associated with the mean scores reported for HRQoL.

Method

A systematic review and meta-analysis using forest plots in STATA were conducted. The databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, Amed, and SveMed+ were used for the systematic searches with combinations of terms for colorectal cancer, the pall

SUBMITTER: Flyum IR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8447559 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature