Using the Palliative Performance Scale to Provide Meaningful Survival Estimates

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 134-144

  Lau, Francis ^a   Downing, Michael ^b   Lesperance, Mary ^a   Karlson, Nicholas ^a   Kuziemsky, Craig ^c   Yang, Ju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Victoria Hospice Society   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

palliative care; Palliative Performance Scale; prognostication; Survival estimates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOMOGRAM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRITISH COLUMBIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650119420     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2008.05.017     Document Type: Article

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