The pediatric cancer quality of life inventory-32 (PCQL-32)
CancerPublished 15 March 1998
James W. Varni, Ernest R. Katz, Michael Seid, Daniel J. L. Quiggins, Amy Friedman-Bender
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The Pediatric Cancer Quality of Life Inventory‐32 (PCQL‐32) is a standardized patient self‐report and parent proxy‐report assessment instrument designed to assess systematically pediatric cancer patients' HRQOL outcomes.
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The PCQL-32 has demonstrated acceptable internal consistency reliability, clinical validity, and construct validity for both patient-report and parent-report forms. Further field testing of the PCQL-32 will determine its practicality and utility in multisite pediatric cancer randomized controlled clinical trials.
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