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Peter Fayers is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular attention to public health, environmental and occupational health, economics and econometrics, general health professions, oncology, and ophthalmology.

Their work covers a range of topics including health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, palliative care and end-of-life issues, nasolacrimal duct obstruction treatments, ocular surface and contact lens, cancer survivorship and care, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and health disparities and outcomes.

Fayers has contributed to several recent publications, which include:

  • Overlap of Depressive Symptoms with Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measures (2020, PharmacoEconomics)
  • The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Eight Dimension (FACT-8D), a Multi-Attribute Utility Instrument Derived From the Cancer-Specific FACT-General (FACT-G) Quality of Life Questionnaire: Development and Australian Value Set (2021, Value in Health)
  • Differences in Patient-Reported Outcomes That Are Most Frequently Detected in Randomized Controlled Trials in Patients With Solid Tumors: A Pooled Analysis of 229 Trials (2020, Value in Health)
  • The watery eye quality of life (WEQOL) questionnaire: a patient-reported outcome measure for surgically amenable epiphora (2021, Eye)
  • United States Value Set for the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General Eight Dimensions (FACT-8D), a Cancer-Specific Preference-Based Quality of Life Instrument (2023, PharmacoEconomics - Open)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fayers include:

  • Madeleine King
  • Richard Norman
  • Rosalie Viney
  • A. Simon Pickard
  • David Cella

Their research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Value in Health
  • Eye
  • PharmacoEconomics
  • PharmacoEconomics - Open
  • Targeted Oncology

Best Publications

  • EORTC QLQ-C30 Scoring Manual

    Peter Fayers;N. K. Aaronson;N. K. Aaronson;K. Bjordal;K. Bjordal;K. Bjordal;M. Groenvold

  • Studies Comparing Numerical Rating Scales, Verbal Rating Scales, and Visual Analogue Scales for Assessment of Pain Intensity in Adults: A Systematic Literature Review

    Marianne Jensen Hjermstad;Marianne Jensen Hjermstad;Peter M. Fayers;Peter M. Fayers;Dagny F. Haugen;Dagny F. Haugen;Augusto Caraceni

  • Patient survival after D-1 and D-2 resections for gastric cancer: long-term results of the MRC randomized surgical trial

    A Cuschieri;S Weeden;J Fielding;J Bancewicz

  • Postoperative morbidity and mortality after D1 and D2 resections for gastric cancer: preliminary results of the MRC randomised controlled surgical trial

    A Cuschieri;V Joypaul;P Fayers;P Cook

  • Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancer Patients: Validation of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-H&N35

    Kristin Bjordal;Eva Hammerlid;Marianne Ahlner-Elmqvist;Alexander De Graeff

  • A 12 country field study of the EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) and the head and neck cancer specific module (EORTC QLQ-H&N35) in head and neck patients

    K Bjordal;A de Graeff;P M Fayers;E Hammerlid

  • ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research

    Bryce B. Reeve;Kathleen W. Wyrwich;Albert W. Wu;Galina Velikova

  • Quality of life research within the EORTC the EORTC QLQ-C30

    P Fayers;P Fayers;A Bottomley

  • The development of the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL: A shortened questionnaire for cancer patients in palliative care

    Mogens Groenvold;Mogens Groenvold;Morten Aa. Petersen;Neil K. Aaronson;Juan I. Arraras

  • Evidence-Based Guidelines for Determination of Sample Size and Interpretation of the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30

    Kim Cocks;Madeleine T. King;Galina Velikova;Galina Velikova;Marrissa Martyn St-James

  • Understanding self-rated health.

    Peter M Fayers;Mirjam A G Sprangers

  • The clinical significance of adaptation to changing health: a meta-analysis of response shift.

    Carolyn E. Schwartz;Rita Bode;Nicholas Repucci;Janine Becker

  • Health-related quality of life in the general Norwegian population assessed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Core Quality-of-Life Questionnaire: the QLQ=C30 (+ 3).

    Marianne J. Hjermstad;Peter M. Fayers;Kristin Bjordal;Stein Kaasa

  • Interferon-alpha and survival in metastatic renal carcinoma: early results of a randomised controlled trial

    A Ritchie;G Griffiths;M Parmar;SD Fossa

  • Clinical and psychometric validation of an EORTC questionnaire module, the EORTC QLQ-OES18, to assess quality of life in patients with oesophageal cancer.

    J.M Blazeby;T Conroy;E Hammerlid;P Fayers

  • Evidence-based guidelines for interpreting change scores for the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30.

    K. Cocks;M.T. King;G. Velikova;G. de Castro

  • EORTC QLQ–C30 Reference Values Manual

    Neil William Scott;Peter Fayers;Neil K Aaronson;Andrew Bottomley

  • Using reference data on quality of life—the importance of adjusting for age and gender, exemplified by the EORTC QLQ-C30 (+3)

    M. J. Hjermstad;P. M. Fayers;Kristin Bjordal;S. Kaasa

  • Item Response Theory for Psychologists

    Peter Fayers

  • Quality o f L ife i n H ead a nd N eck C ancer P atients: Validation o f t he E uropean O rganization f or R esearch and T reatment o f C ancer Q uality o f L ife Questionnaire-H&N35

    Kristin Bjordal;Eva Hammerlid;Marianne Ahlner-Elmqvist;Alexander de Graeff

Frequent Co-Authors

Stein Kaasa
Stein Kaasa Oslo University Hospital
Neil K. Aaronson
Neil K. Aaronson Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Mirjam A. G. Sprangers
Mirjam A. G. Sprangers University of Amsterdam
Jane M Blazeby
Jane M Blazeby University of Bristol
Andrew Bottomley
Andrew Bottomley European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
Madeleine King
Madeleine King University of Sydney
Ron D. Hays
Ron D. Hays University of California, Los Angeles
Irene J Higginson
Irene J Higginson King's College London
Morten Petersen
Morten Petersen University of Copenhagen
Andrea L. Pusic
Andrea L. Pusic Brigham and Women's Hospital

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