Beney et al. (A-16) evaluated the effect of telephone follow-up on the physical well-being dimension of health-related quality of life in patients with cancer. One of the main outcome variables was measured by the physical well-being subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Scale-General (FACT-G). A higher score indicates higher physical well-being. The following table shows the baseline FACT-G score and the follow-up score to evaluate the physical well-being during the 7 days after discharge from hospital to home for 66 patients who received a phone call 48–72 hours after discharge that gave patients the opportunity to discuss medications, problems, and advice.

Is there sufficient evidence to indicate that quality of physical well-being significantly decreases in the first week of discharge among patients who receive a phone call? Let a ¼ :05.

Subject Baseline FACT-G Follow-up FACT-G Subject Baseline FACT-G Follow-up FACT-G 1 16 19 34 25 14 2 26 19 35 21 17 3 13 9 36 14 22 4 20 23 37 23 22 5 22 25 38 19 16 6 21 20 39 19 15 7 20 10 40 18 23 8 15 20 41 20 21 9 25 22 42 18 11 10 20 18 43 22 22 11 11 6 44 7 17 12 22 21 45 23 9 13 18 17 46 19 16 14 21 13 47 17 16 15 25 25 48 22 20 16 17 21 49 19 23 17 26 22 50 5 17 18 18 22 51 22 17 19 7 9 52 12 6 20 25 24 53 19 19 21 22 15 54 17 20 22 15 9 55 7 6 23 19 7 56 27 10 24 23 20 57 22 16 25 19 19 58 16 14 26 21 24 59 26 24 27 24 23 60 17 19 28 21 15 61 23 22 29 28 27 62 23 23 30 18 26 63 13 3 31 25 26 64 24 22 32 25 26 65 17 21 33 28 28 66 22 21 Source: Data provided courtesy of Johnny Beney, Ph.D. and E. Beth Devine, Pharm.D., M.B.A. et al.