Humanistic burden of patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease - systematic literature review of health-related quality of life and functional status

Introduction: Chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a serious complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). This study aims to provide a systematic overview of evidence on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and functional capacity of HSCT patients with National Institutes of Health (NIH)-defined chronic GVHD.Areas covered: English-language articles published between 2007 and 2017 were searched using...