Quality of life at the end of life

Table 1 Longitudinal Data for “Mr. Smith” (WQL = 12.63 prospective, = 5.10 retrospective)

1 Weeks after enrollment (0 is person's baseline)
2 Weeks before death. (0 is the week the person died)
3 QOL: Observed QOL data
4 QOLt: QOL transformed to the probability of having good QOL next week given current QOL
5 QOLtd: QOLt with the weeks when person was dead set to 0. Weeks 138–150 are missing because Mr. Smith enrolled only 137 weeks before the end of current data collection.
6 QOLtdi: QOLtd with missing data imputed. Unknown for weeks 117–131 (for Mr. Smith).
7 QOLtdi transformed back to the original categories. (identical to observed QOL values, imputed values may need to be rounded).

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