Usefulness of Palliative Prognostic Index for Patient With Advanced Cancer in Home Care Setting

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 264-267

  Hamano, Jun ^a   Maeno, Takami ^b   Kizawa, Yoshiyuki ^b   Shima, Yasuo ^c   Maeno, Tetsuhiro ^b  

^a Yamato Clinic   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

home care setting; home visiting service; palliative care; palliative prognostic index; patient with advanced cancer; prognostic prediction; retrospective study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84876234477     PISSN: 10499091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049909112448923     Document Type: Article

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