Acute symptomatic complications among patients with advanced cancer admitted to acute palliative care units: A prospective observational study

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 826-833

  Hui, David ^a   Dos Santos, Renata ^b   Reddy, Suresh ^a   De Angelis Nascimento, Maria Salete ^b   Zhukovsky, Donna S ^a   Paiva, Carlos Eduardo ^b   Dalal, Shalini ^b   Costa, Everaldo Donizeti ^b   Walker, Paul ^a   Scapulatempo, Heloisa Helena ^b   Dev, Rony ^a   Crovador, Camila Souza ^b   De La Cruz, Maxine ^a   Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BARRETOS CANCER HOSPITAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Complications; hemorrhage; infection; intestinal obstruction; morbidity; neoplasms; palliative care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAZIL; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COMPLICATION; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATIC COMPLICATION; UNITED STATES; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEXAS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941954510     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216315583031     Document Type: Article

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