Nurses Provide Valuable Proxy Assessment of the Health-Related Quality of Life of Children With Hodgkin Disease.

The article reports on the study which compared the correlation of proxy reporting of health-related quality of life (HRQL) by the parents and nurses of children with Hodgkin disease. It indicates that the Canadian children's Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) generic scores increased at the end of the study except during inpatient chemotherapy. It implies that nurses contributed valuable information as proxy respondents regarding the quality of life for children with Hodgkin disease.