Modeling the longitudinal transitions of performance status in cancer outpatients: Time to discuss palliative care

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 726-734

  Sutradhar, Rinku ^a,b   Seow, Hsien ^a,e,f   Earle, Craig ^a,c   Dudgeon, Deborah ^g   Atzema, Clare ^a,c   Husain, Amna ^c   Howell, Doris ^b   Liu, Ying ^a   Sussman, Jonathan ^e,f   Barbera, Lisa ^a,c,d,h  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

End of life; Markov processes; Palliative Performance Scale; retrospective cohort study; transition function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CARE; SIMULATION; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84875746892     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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