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Study details and Participant details Intervention details Results Conclusion and<br />

design comments<br />

51 who did not have post-baseline QoL assessments tended<br />

to have a po<strong>or</strong>er perf<strong>or</strong>mance status and lower QOL at<br />

baseline<br />

Differencea p-Value<br />

Blinding<br />

Outcome<br />

assess<strong>or</strong>: No<br />

Carer: No<br />

Patient: No<br />

Success<br />

assessed: NA<br />

80% Follow-up:<br />

Yes<br />

FLIC: total –4.34 0.12<br />

Symptom distress: total 0.05 0.96<br />

Sexual and urological function: total 0.08 0.89<br />

Problems in daily life –1.25 0.20<br />

Impact <strong>of</strong> pain –1.87 0.38<br />

FLIC: physical well–being –1.90 0.29<br />

FLIC: emotional state –1.42 0.04<br />

FLIC: family disruption –0.93 0.02<br />

FLIC: pain from cancer 0.35 0.26<br />

FLIC: pain interferes –0.18 0.43<br />

Symptom distress: pain, how <strong>of</strong>ten –0.30 0.06<br />

Symptom distress: pain, how severe –0.28 0.03<br />

Symptom distress: appetite 0.08 0.59<br />

Symptom distress: fatigue –0.06 0.68<br />

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a Negative values favour I, positive values favour C.<br />

Discontinuations: Not rep<strong>or</strong>ted<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> cycles: median <strong>of</strong> 5 cycles <strong>of</strong> mitoxantrone<br />

Health Technology Assessment 2007; Vol. 11: No. 2<br />

151

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