Survival implications of sudden functional decline as a sentinel event using the palliative performance scale

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 549-557

  Downing, G Michael ^a   Lesperance, Mary ^b   Lau, Francis ^b   Yang, Ju ^b  

^a Victoria Hospice Society   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77952831886     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2009.0299     Document Type: Article

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