Change in physiological variables in the last 2 weeks of life: An observational study of hospital in-patients with cancer

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 120-127

  Taylor, Paul ^a   Crouch, Simon ^b   Howell, Debra A ^b   Dowding, Dawn W ^c   Johnson, Miriam J ^d  

^a St Benedict's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dying; Observation; Palliative; Prognosis; Terminal

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SOLID TUMOR; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY; ANOXIA; BREATHING RATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANOXIA; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RESPIRATORY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84922381573     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216314554967     Document Type: Article

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