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There is an escalating worldwide population of thyroid cancer (TC) survivors. In addition to conventional metrics of quality of care, quality-of-life (QoL) assessment in TC patients is imperative. TC survivors face unique impediments to health-related quality of life (HRQoL), including thyroid-specific symptoms and exposure to disease-related stressors-including fear of recurrence and financial toxicity-over a prolonged survival period. Survey instruments currently used to assess HRQoL in TC survivors may be insufficient to accurately capture the burden of disease in this population. We aimed to identify the HRQoL instruments in the literature, which have been applied in the TC survivor population, and to present the psychometric properties of the scales and indexes that have been used. We hypothesized that few instruments have shown evidence of validity in this population. Of the 927 articles identified by search criteria, only 28 studies using 15 HRQoL instruments met inclusion criteria. Of the 15 HRQoL instruments identified, 9 were psychometric health status instruments and 6 were preference-based indexes, but none had been validated in the TC survivor population. While the maj

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Author

Roth, Eve M; Lubitz, Carrie C; Swan, John Shannon; James, Benjamin Christopher

Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert; Mary Ann Liebert Inc.; Mary Ann Liebert Inc (ISSN 1050-7256)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)