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Quality of Life Assessment and Outcome of Palliative Care

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1 Quality of Life Assessment and Outcome of Palliative Care
Eugenio Paci, MD, Guido Miccinesi, MD, Franco Toscani, MD, Marcello Tamburini, MSc, Cinzia Brunelli, MSc, Massimo Constantini, MD, Carlo Peruselli, MD, Paola Di Giulio, MSc, Michele Gallucci, MD, Julia Addington-Hall, PhD, Irene J. Higginson, MD, BM, BS, PhD  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages (March 2001) DOI: /S (01)

2 Fig. 1 Flowchart of the Italian National Palliative Care Study patients Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  , DOI: ( /S (01) )

3 Fig. 2 Quality of life by time since enrollment and by time since death. Lowess smoothing on Physical Symptoms, Therapy Impact Index, and Pain scales: 3014 questionnaires (2257 self compiled). Bold lines are drawn for estimates derived from all valid measures; thin lines are drawn for estimates derived from self compiled TIQ only Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  , DOI: ( /S (01) )

4 Fig. 3 Summary Measure Outcome on Physical Symptoms, Therapy Impact Index, and Pain scales by low, medium, high baseline distress. Self-compiled + proxy ratings (n = 409) and self-compiled ratings only (n = 286). Darkest shading of columns indicates worst outcome Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  , DOI: ( /S (01) )


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