Development of a predicting tool for survival of terminally III cancer patients

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 442-448

  Hyodo, Ichinosuke ^a   Morita, Tatsuya ^b   Adachi, Isamu ^c   Shima, Yasuo ^d   Yoshizawa, Akitaka ^e   Hiraga, Kazuaki ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Seirei Mikatabara General Hospital   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^d Tsukuba Medical Center   (Japan)

^e Kanamecho Hospital   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Communication; Palliative care; Prediction; Prognosis; Terminal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN PALLIATIVE ONCOLOGY STUDY PROGNOSTIC INDEX; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID TUMOR; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURVIVAL; TERMINAL CARE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77952580139     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyp182     Document Type: Article

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