Assessment of patients’ needs
Existing QOL scales are unsuitable and will be supplanted
by disease- and symptom-specific QOL measures
[15,24]. Tools approaching the validated Symptoms
and Concerns Checklist are also needed [1••].
Development and validation of preverbal scales, such as
those used in pediatrics and geriatrics for pain assessment,
could address the problem of communication in
brain tumor patients with cognitive impairment