Palliative performance scale and survival among outpatients with advanced cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 913-918

  Myers, Jeff ^a   Kim, Audrey ^a   Flanagan, Jamie ^a   Selby, Debbie ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Advanced cancer; Palliative care; Performance status; Survival duration; Survival estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP SCALE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PALLIATIVE PERFORMANCE SCALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; EVALUATION STUDY; FORECASTING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84930515207     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-014-2440-8     Document Type: Article

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