Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Do neurooncological patients and their significant others agree on quality of life ratings? | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Do neurooncological patients and their significant others agree on quality of life ratings Johannes M Giesinger1 Miriam Golser1 Astrid Erharter1 Georg Kemmler1 Gabriele Schauer-Maurer1 Guenter Stockhammer2 Armin Muigg2 Markus Hutterer2 Gerhard Rumpold1 and Bernhard Holzner 1 Address Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Innsbruck Medical University A-6020 Innsbruck Austria and - Department of Neurology Innsbruck Medical University Anichstr. 35 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria Email Johannes M Giesinger - Miriam Golser - Astrid Erharter - Georg Kemmler - Gabriele Schauer-Maurer - Guenter Stockhammer - Armin Muigg - Markus Hutterer - Gerhard Rumpold - Bernhard Holzner - Corresponding author Published 9 October 2009 Received 2 April 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 87 doi 1477-7525-7-87 Accepted 9 October 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 87 2009 Giesinger et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Patients suffering from brain tumours often experience a wide range of cognitive impairments that impair their ability to report on their quality of life and symptom burden. The use of proxy ratings by significant others may be a promising alternative to gain information for medical decision making or research purposes if self-ratings are not obtainable. Our study investigated the agreement of quality of life and symptom ratings by the .
