The palliative performance scale: Examining its inter-rater reliability in an outpatient palliative radiation oncology clinic. Support Care Cancer 2009;17:685-90.Campos S, Zhang L, Sinclair E, et al. The Palli- ative Performance Scale: examining its inter-rater reliability in an outpatient ...
The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) was designed to assess functional status and measure progressive decline in palliative care patients, yet it has not been validated within hospital health care settings. This study explores the application of the PPS for its predictive ability related to length ...
The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS), which measures performance status (100 = best performance to 0 = dead), and the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS), which measures severity of 9 symptoms, are routinely collected at ambulatory cancer visits in Ontario. This study describes the traject...
PURPOSE: Ontario's cancer system is unique because it has implemented two standardized assessment tools population-wide to improve care: the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) measures severity of nine symptoms (scale 0 to 10; 10 indicates the worst) and the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS...
Is the Palliative Performance Scale a useful predictor of mortality in a heterogeneous hospice population? J Palliat Med, 8 (2005), pp. 503-509 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 7 B. Head, C. Ritchie, T. Smoot Prognostication in hospice care: can the Palliative Performance Scale help? J...
Performance status and symptom scores of women with gynecologic cancer at the end of life. The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS), which measures performance status (100 = best performance to 0 = dead), and the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System ... Lori,Spoozak,Hsien,... - 《International ...
Related to palliatives:urchin pal·li·a·tive (păl′ē-ā′tĭv, -ē-ə-tĭv) adj. 1.Tending or serving to palliate. 2.Alleviating the symptoms of a disease or disorder, especially one that is terminal, when a cure is not available. ...
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Palliative care as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) is “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children) and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. It prevents and relieves suffering through the early identificati...