… We carried out a prospective cohort study in two palliative care units to compare the accuracy
of the Palliative Prognostic (PaP) Score, the Objective Prognostic Score (OPS), and the …

… As few longitudinal studies have examined the influence of patient quality of life (QoL) in
palliative care on burden of family caregivers, the aim of this study was to identify correlations …

… Study Design and Subjects We conducted an observational cohort study of all patients who
received palliative care … -up observation of patients for 12 months after cohort entry. The …

… This article addresses the research question: Does timing of palliative care have an impact
… prior studies 8 and our finding that there is no association between costs and palliative care …

… the largest UK cohort study undertaken to explore duration of palliative care in patients with
… In terms of studies exploring duration of palliative care globally, our cohort is second only in …

… We report a retrospective cohort study that linked routinely collected data on hospital and …
of palliative care provision used in this study was time between first contact with palliative care …

… Specifically this study investigated the impact of receiving palliative care early (at least 6
months … to reduce selection bias in observational cohorts around receipt of early palliative care. …

… Patients were eligible to participate in this study if they had been newly referred to the
relevant palliative care service with a diagnosis of advanced (locally extensive or metastatic), …

… to palliative care across the United Kingdom, this study focuses on provision of specialist
palliative care by hospices, which provide the majority of this level of care in the UK context. …

… Drawing on an earlier Australian study which defined conditions considered potentially
amenable to palliative care [18], this study traces specialist palliative care service use in the last …