Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite for Clinical Practice (EPIC-CP): Development and Validation of a Practical Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument for Use in the Routine Clinical Care of Prostate Cancer Patients

摘要

PurposeMeasuring prostate cancer patient HRQOL in routine clinical practice is hindered by lack of instruments enabling efficient real-time, point-of-care scoring of multiple HRQOL domains. We sought to develop an instrument for this purpose.