Purpose: Providing survival estimates is important for decision making in oncology care. The
purpose of this study was to provide survival estimates for outpatients with advanced cancer …

El estado funcional o performance status (PS) de un paciente se define como el nivel de
actividad que puede realizar un individuo y su capacidad para autocuidado1. El PS se …

Abstract Purpose Quality of life (QoL) and performance status predict survival in advanced
cancer patients; these relationships have not been explored in the hospice palliative care …

A reliable estimation of prognosis in patients receiving palliative care is desirable in order to
facilitate clinical decision finding. For patients with advanced hematological malignancies …

Aim To explore awareness of impending death for very old persons in long‐term care
facilities. Background The trajectories of decline that are associated with chronic progressive …

Objective Even though more than 25% of Americans die in nursing homes, end-of-life care
has consistently been found to be less than adequate in this setting. Even for those residents …

Aims and objectives To examine whether an educational intervention and implementation of
a validated prognostication tool can improve inpatient acute care nurses' knowledge of …

Objectives To investigate the effect of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) on
hemoglobin (Hb) level, fatigue and hospitalization rate in renal palliative care (PC) patients …

Introducción La capacidad para pronosticar la supervivencia de pacientes con enfermedad
terminal de la «Palliative Performance Scale»(PPS) es ampliamente reconocida. Esta …

Background: The relationship between performance status and death among cancer
patients has been of increasing interest over the past years. However, few studies have …