The use of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as an endpoint in cancer clinical trials is growing rapidly. HRQoL is assessed at different visit times throughout the care process by self-administered questionnaires. However, these questionnaires are frequently incomplete (partially or entirely), and, among patients in palliative care, this could unfortunately be the consequence of dropouts related to disease progression or death. Linear mixed models (LMMs) are generally used to analyze longitudinal data of HRQoL, but they are likely to produce biased estimates in the presence of informative missing data, i.e., if missingness is correlated with the missing HRQoL outcome. The objective of this work was to study modeling alternatives to ana...