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- Title
Change in physiological variables in the last 2 weeks of life: An observational study of hospital in-patients with cancer.
- Authors
Taylor, Paul; Crouch, Simon; Howell, Debra A; Dowding, Dawn W; Johnson, Miriam J
- Abstract
The article offers information on a study which explore the physiological change in the final two weeks of life in hospital patients with cancer. It mentions that retrospective cohort study, data collection, and multilevel modelling were used to study the terminally ill patients. It shows the significant change in respiratory and renal function over the final two weeks of the dying patient.
- Subjects
CANCER patients; CRITICAL care medicine; HOSPITAL care; HOSPITAL patients; EVALUATION of medical care; NATIONAL health services; SCIENTIFIC observation; PALLIATIVE treatment; SERIAL publications; TERMINALLY ill; ACQUISITION of data; RETROSPECTIVE studies; PATIENT selection
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 2, p120
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216314554967