Journal article
Initiation of Chemotherapy in Cancer Patients with Poor Performance Status: A Population-Based Analysis
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Practice guidelines indicate that patients who have months to weeks left to live should not be offered chemotherapy. We examined factors associated with clinician-reported poor performance status as determined by the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) and subsequent initiation of intravenous (IV) chemotherapy in an ambulatory cancer population in Ontario, Canada.
METHODS: In this retrospective study, patients who had at least one PPS …
Authors
Porter J; Earle C; Atzema C; Liu Y; Howell D; Seow H; Sutradhar R; Dudgeon D; Husain A; Sussman J
Journal
Journal of Palliative Care, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 166–172
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
September 2014
DOI
10.1177/082585971403000306
ISSN
0825-8597