… 17 years showed standard mortality ratios in Crohn's disease ranging between 2.16 and
0.72 with a tendency of decline during the last four decades. One study with 11.4 years mean …

… healthcare needs of COPD patients in the last year of life through … years. Based on the
reports of informants of the deaths: 98% were breathless all the time or sometimes in the last year …

… patients who die from this disease. Several comprehensive definitions of palliative care have
been proposed in recent years.… and planning for death of patients who suffer from advanced …

… the last year of life and 1-month intervals during the last 3 months of life. Number of patients
… several distinct groups of women identifiable during the last year of life. A group of women …

… T-cell lymphomas in inflammatory bowel disease patients is associated with thiopurine …
derived from the TREAT registry after an average of 1.9 years of follow-up ( 15 ). Results of …

… last year of life, but questions remain about conditions other than cancer, end-stage cardiac
or respiratory disease, … determine the functional trajectory in the last year of life for those with …

… upon those with advanced disease and their … last year of life. The American College of
Chest Physicians’ position statement on palliative care for patients with cardiopulmonary disease …

… indolent (no disease activity flares during the first 5 years after diagnosis)… disease activity
flares during the first 5 years but less than every year), or aggressive (disease flares every year …

… rather than acute, diseases.4, 5, 6 They will usually have endured several symptom complexes
for many years. Cartwright, 7 for example, compared reports of the last year of life in 1969 …

… the cause of death; “CHF or chronic lung disease” if they or their proxy reported a diagnosis
… in the last 2 years of life. Questions about diagnoses of CHF, chronic lung disease, and …