Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatments Examined by Hidden Markov Modeling Are Mostly Stable in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients' Last Six Months of Life Siew Tzuh Tang, DNSc, Fur-Hsing Wen, PhD, Wen-Cheng Chang, MD, Chia-Hsun Hsieh, MD, Wen-Chi Chou, MD, Jen-Shi Chen, MD, Ming-Mo Hou, MD Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Volume 54, Issue 5, Pages 628-636.e2 (November 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.07.042 Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 Participant flow chart. LST = life-sustaining treatment. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2017 54, 628-636.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.07.042) Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions
Fig. 2 Probabilities (size) for each state estimated at different times after enrollment in patients' last six months of life. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2017 54, 628-636.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.07.042) Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions
Appendix 3 Model Fit Figures for One- to Eight-State Solutions of Preferences for life-sustaining treatments. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2017 54, 628-636.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.07.042) Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions