Journal article
Performance Status and Symptom Scores of Women With Gynecologic Cancer at the End of Life
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: 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 trajectory of scores in patients with gynecologic cancer in the last 6 months of life.
METHODS: An observational study was conducted between 2007 …
Authors
Spoozak L; Seow H; Liu Y; Wright J; Barbera L
Journal
International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 971–978
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 2013
DOI
10.1097/igc.0b013e318291e5ef
ISSN
1048-891X