Progressive disease in patients with cancer presenting to an emergency room with acute symptoms predicts short-term mortality

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1038-1045

  Geraci, Jane M ^a   Tsang, Walter ^a   Valdres, Rosalie V ^a   Escalante, Carmen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer progression; Mortality prediction; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; CANCER CENTER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS; VOMITING;

EID: 33749033662     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-006-0053-6     Document Type: Review

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