Walshaw, EG, Smith, M, Kim, D et al. (3 more authors) (2021) Systematic review of health-related quality of life following thyroid cancer. Tumori Journal. ISSN 0300-8916
Abstract
This systematic review provides a summary of all studies published between 2000 and 2019 using a health-related quality of life (HRQOL) patient-completed questionnaire to report outcomes following diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer. The search terms were “thyroid cancer” or “thyroid carcinoma,” “quality of life” or “health related quality of life,” and “questionnaire” or “patient reported outcome.” EMBASE, PubMed, Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and HaNDLE-On-QOL search engines were searched between 2 February and 23 February 2020. A total of 811 identified articles were reduced to 314 when duplicates were removed. After exclusion criteria (not thyroid specific, no quality of life questionnaires, and conference abstracts) were applied, 92 remained. Hand searching identified a further 2 articles. Of the 94 included, 16 had a surgical, 26 a primarily medical, and 52 a general focus. There were articles from 27 countries. A total of 49 articles were published from 2015 through 2019 inclusive. A total of 72 questionnaires were used among the articles and a range of 7 to 2215 participants were included within each article. This review demonstrated an increasing number of publications annually. The scope of enquiry into aspects of HRQOL following thyroid cancer is broad, with relatively few addressing surgical aspects and many focusing on the impact of radio-iodine. More research is required into shared decision-making in initial management decisions and HRQOL and interventions aimed specifically at addressing long-term HRQOL difficulties.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori 2021. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). |
Keywords: | Thyroid cancer; quality of life; questionnaire; review; patient-reported outcomes |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Dentistry (Leeds) > School of Dentistry Visitors (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2021 11:06 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:50 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/03008916211025098 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180910 |