Table 2.

Planning and reporting of QoL outcomes

	Total (N = 173)	Investigator-sponsored (N = 86)	Industry-sponsored (N = 87)
QoL specified in protocol	90 (52%)	47 (55%)	43 (49%)
Published	53 (31%)	27 (31%)	26 (30%)
QoL reported	35 (20%)	16 (19%)	19 (22%)
Instruments as specified	31 (18%)	16 (19%)	15 (17%)
Only one of two instruments	3 (2%)	0	3 (3%)
Two completely different instruments	1 (1%)	0	1 (1%)
QoL not reported	18 (10%)	11 (13%)	7 (8%)
Not published	37 (21%)	20 (23%)	17 (20%)
QoL not specified in protocol	83 (48%)	39 (45%)	44 (51%)
Published	55 (32%)	26 (30%)	29 (33%)
QoL not reported	55 (32%)	26 (30%)	29 (33%)
Not published	28 (16%)	13 (15%)	15 (17%)

QoL, quality of life.