Table 1 Description of patients excluded from the quality of life (QL) analysis

From: Quantifying trade-offs: quality of life and quality-adjusted survival in a randomised trial of chemotherapy in postmenopausal patients with lymph node-negative breast cancer

Total eligible cases

1669

Exclusions from analysis

 

Relapse within first 24 months of randomisation

136

Completed no QL forms

98

Completed QL forms in multiple languages

33

Undefined culturea

4

Assessable cases

1398b

  1. aCulture is defined by the following language/country combinations: English/Australia; New Zealand; English/South Africa; French/Switzerland; German/Switzerland; Italian/Switzerland; Italian/Italy; Slovenian/Slovenia; Spanish/Spain; Swedish/Sweden.
  2. bOf the 1398 patients, 803 completed all of their assessments using the 1993 version of the QL form. These 803 patients were used for the analyses of indicators included alone on this version of the form (tiredness, hot flushes, nausea/vomiting, social support, arm movement and SHE). All 1398 patients were used for the analyses of indicators included on both versions of the QL form (physical well being, mood, appetite and PACIS).
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