Fig. 1.

Box and whisker plots of EORTC QLQ-30 scores (in all domains; global health, functional scales, symptoms scales) at follow-up intervals. (a) Box and whisker plots of EORTC QLQ-30 score (in global health, functional scales, and symptoms scales) at initial and 30th day intervals. QoL scores did not change significantly at initial and throughout the 30th day in all domains. (n = 39 patients; p, Significance probability of the Student's t-test for paired samples). (b) Box and whisker plots of EORTC QLQ-30 score (in global health, functional scales, and symptoms scales) at initial, 30th day and 60th day intervals. QoL scores did not change significantly at initial and throughout the 30th day and 60th day, in all domains. (n = 26 patients); 27 cases without information (16 deaths + 11 cases without information); p, Significance probability of the Student's t-test for paired samples. The box shows the quartiles (the top and bottom of the boxes represents the 75th and 25th percentiles) of the domains in the QLQ-30 scores, while the whiskers extend to show the rest of distribution (the top and bottom of the whiskers represents the highest and lowest data points, excluding any outliers). The line within each box represents the median. The points are determined to be the outliers.