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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Oncol. 2005 Aug 20;23(24):5605–5612. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2005.08.147

Table 2.

Quality-of-Life Questionnaire Completion Rates

Factor Interval Secondary Cytoreduction No Interval Secondary Cytoreduction


Assessment Time Point Assessment Time Point


1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4








No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %
Assessments expected 216 213 209 189 208 208 207 196

Patient deaths 0 3 4 20 0 0 1 11

Assessments received 190* 88 163 77 170 81 144 76 190 91 186 89 175 85 164 84

Reason for missing assessments
 Patient illness 3 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 4 2
 Patient refusal 6 3 10 5 11 5 9 5 8 4 5 2 7 3 5 3
 Institutional error 15 7 31 15 18 9 16 8 8 4 11 5 14 7 11 6
 Patient off study 0 0 2 1 1 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
 Other 2 1 6 3 7 3 13 7 1 1 6 3 8 4 10 5
*

Four patients assessed after interval secondary cytoreduction.