Head and Neck Surgery Outcome Tool: UW-QOL-R4

University of Washington Quality of Life Revised Version 4 (UW-QOL-R4)

Description

Provides basic quality of life data on the physical, functional, emotional quality of life of the head and neck cancer patient

Targeted Age

Adults

Items (Domains)

12 (N/A)

Estimated Completion Time

10 minutes

Reliability/Validity Assessment

Yes/Yes

Literature

UW-QOL-R4 Scoring tool

1) Deleyiannis FW, Weymuller EA Jr, Coltrera MD. Quality of life of disease-free survivors of advanced (stage III or IV) oropharyngeal cancer. Head Neck. 1997;19:466-73.

2) Hassan SJ, Weymuller EA Jr. Assessment of quality of life in head and neck cancer patients. Head Neck 1993;15:485-96.

3) Weymuller EA, Yueh B, Deleyiannis FW, Kuntz AL, Alsarraf R, Coltrera MD. Quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer: lessons learned from 549 prospectively evaluated patients.Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2000;126:329-35; discussion 335-6.