Can we predict which hospitalised patients are in their last year of life? A prospective cross-sectional study of the Gold Standards Framework Prognostic Indicator Guidance as a screening tool in the acute hospital setting

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1046-1052

  O'Callaghan, Anne ^a,b   Laking, George ^a,b   Frey, Rosemary ^b   Robinson, Jackie ^a,b   Gott, Merryn ^b  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

End of life; Gold Standards Framework; Gold Standards Framework Prognostic Indicator Guidance; Hospital; Palliative; Prognosis; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; GOLD STANDARDS FRAMEWORK PROGNOSTIC INDICATOR GUIDANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENDERISM; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; TERMINAL CARE; TIME; TRENDS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84906991746     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216314536089     Document Type: Article

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