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Fifty advanced cancer patients aged 18 years or older with clinician-estimated life expectancy of 3–12 months and Palliative Performance Status Scale scores greater than 30% were recruited from an outpatient palliative care clinic and palliative home care. Participants completed a cross-sectional ...
“would not be surprised if the patient died in the next year,”16-18 (2) life expectancy of more than 1 month, and (3) recent deterioration in functional status, with a reduction in the Australia-Modified Karnofsky Performance Status19 scale score to less than 80% in the previous 3 ...
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures are of interest because they can be used to describe health of populations and represent a broader health outcome for population health analyses than mortality rates or life expectancy. The most widely used measure of HRQoL for deriving estimates of ...
“Being socially isolated is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day,” she explained, adding that isolation can reduce life expectancy by as much as 15 years. Citing Dr. Robert Waldinger, leader of the long-running Harvard Study of Adult Development, Whitman shared that adults who enjoy...
The prognosed life expectancy of patients depends on the form of mastocytosis and can range from a normal life expectancy in the case of cutaneous SM (a form of mastocytosis that is limited to the skin) and ISM, to a few years or just months as with mast cell leukemia [4]. The ...
The inclusion criterion included an estimated life expectancy of 3 months or more and an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status Score of 0 to 3 to represent varying degrees of disabilities but sufficient function to complete the assessments (Oken et al, 1982). Patients were not ...
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Life expectancy is one of the most important factors in end-of-life decision making. Good prognostication for example helps to determine the course of treatment and helps to anticipate the procurement of health care services and facilities, or more broad
Expectation can be measured, for example, using the Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ) (Borkovec 1972; Devilly 2000), or the Stanford Expectation of Treatment Scale (SETS) (Younger 2012), and could be collected prospectively as a baseline screening. An alternative to these questionnaires ...