Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adults with Primary Immunodeficiencies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
BACKGROUND:
Primary immunodeficiency disorders (PID) is a group of diseases that has been found to have an adverse impact on Quality of Life (QoL) and health related quality of life (HRQL).
OBJECTIVE:
To systematically assess available evidence on PID patients HRQL.
METHODS:
We performed a literature search of all studies reporting HRQL assessments in patients with PID published in English from inception to 11 April 2017 using MEDLINE and EMBASE.