Survival prediction for terminally ill cancer patients: Revision of the palliative prognostic score with incorporation of delirium

Oncologist

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1793-1799

  Scarpi, Emanuela ^a   Maltoni, Marco ^a   Miceli, Rosalba ^a   Mariani, Luigi ^a   Caraceni, Augusto ^b   Amadori, Dino ^b   Nanni, Oriana ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Delirium; Palliative care; Prognostic score; Survival; Validation by calibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PALLIATIVE PROGNOSTIC SCORE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOREXIA; DELIRIUM; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84855176902     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2011-0130     Document Type: Article

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