Variations in vital signs in the last days of life in patients with advanced cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 510-517

  Bruera, Sebastian ^a   Chisholm, Gary ^a   Santos, Renata Dos ^b   Crovador, Camila ^b   Bruera, Eduardo ^a   Hui, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Barretos Cancer Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; death neoplasms; diagnosis death; heart rate; oxygen physiologic; phenomena; respiratory rate; temperature impending

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; DEATH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN SATURATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TERMINAL CARE; VITAL SIGN; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; VITAL SIGNS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908108689     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.10.019     Document Type: Article

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