Quality-of-life trajectories at the end of life: Assessments over time by patients with and without cancer

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 472-479

  Downey, Lois ^a   Engelberg, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; End of life; Multilevel modeling; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; NEOPLASM; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 77949369363     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02734.x     Document Type: Article

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