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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Palliative Performance Scale"”.
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Place of death correlated to socio-demographic factors in a South African hospice
Background: The palliative care literature continually supports the view that home remains the preferred place of death of most patients with terminal illness. However, it also reports that in many countries, palliative care patients sometimes change their minds with regard to this preference. A …
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Study of prognostic markers in advanced cancer
… Clinical markers including weight loss and Performance Status (PS), and biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), White cell count (WCC) and albumin, all representative of systemic inflammation, have been shown to be predictive of survival. Several prognostic …