Objective: To identify all literature regarding depression in patients with advanced cancer
and among mixed hospice populations, and to summarise the prevalence of depression …

OBJECTIVE: In addition to traditional clinical markers, quality-of-life assessment can be
helpful to estimate the well-being of patients. Discrepancies in perception of well-being …

Background Many patients with advanced cancer depend upon health care providers for
symptom assessment. The extent of agreement between patient and provider symptom …

Health-related quality of life (HRQL) studies sometimes rely, in part, on proxy information
obtained from patients' significant others (spouse or close companion) or health care …

In healthcare, most researchers and clinicians agree that quality of life (QOL) is related to
symptoms, functioning, psychological and social wellbeing, and probably to a lesser extent …

Major challenges in the evaluation of the “end results” of health services include ensuring
that concepts are correctly defined and measured, that the validity of measures used in …

As many as 90% of patients with cancer-related pain can attain satisfactory relief through
available pharmacological and medical means. However, as many as 45% of patients in the …

The purpose of this study was to compare patient and proxy (physician and nurse)
assessments of symptoms in advanced cancer patients. The sample consisted of 49 patients …

Pain assessment by patients is the rule in clinical trials but may not be in clinical practice.
We examined studies comparing assessment of pain by patients and professionals in …

Social workers from clinical, academic, and research settings met in 2002 for a national
Social Work Leadership Summit on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Participants placed the …