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Predicting Optimal Cancer Rehabilitation And Supportive Care (Polaris): Rationale And Design For Meta-Analyses Of Individual Patient Data Of Randomized Controlled Trials That Evaluate The Effect Of Physical Activity And Psychosocial Interventions On Health-Related Quality Of Life In Cancer Survivors, Laurien M. Buffart, Joeri Kalter, Mai Jm Chinapaw, Martijn W. Heymans, Neil K. Aaronson, Kerry S. Courneya, Paul B. Jacobsen, Robert Newton, Irma M. Verdonck-De Leeuw, Johannes Brug
Predicting Optimal Cancer Rehabilitation And Supportive Care (Polaris): Rationale And Design For Meta-Analyses Of Individual Patient Data Of Randomized Controlled Trials That Evaluate The Effect Of Physical Activity And Psychosocial Interventions On Health-Related Quality Of Life In Cancer Survivors, Laurien M. Buffart, Joeri Kalter, Mai Jm Chinapaw, Martijn W. Heymans, Neil K. Aaronson, Kerry S. Courneya, Paul B. Jacobsen, Robert Newton, Irma M. Verdonck-De Leeuw, Johannes Brug
Research outputs 2013
Effective interventions to improve quality of life of cancer survivors are essential. Numerous randomized controlled trials have evaluated the effects of physical activity or psychosocial interventions on health-related quality of life of cancer survivors, with generally small sample sizes and modest effects. Better targeted interventions may result in larger effects. To realize such targeted interventions, we must determine which interventions that are presently available work for which patients, and what the underlying mechanisms are (that is, the moderators and mediators of physical activity and psychosocial interventions). Individual patient data meta-analysis has been described as the ‘gold standard’ of systematic review …