Improving Patients' Quality of Life at the End of LifeComment on “Factors Important to Patients' Quality of Life at the End of Life”
Menée sur une cohorte de 396 patients atteints d'un cancer avancé (durée médiane de suivi : 4,1 mois), cette étude prospective multicentrique identifie les facteurs améliorant la qualité de vie des patients en fin de vie
Patients and their caregivers provided various demographic, medical, and psychosocial data at enrollment in the study, and a caregiver rated QOL just before death retrospectively several weeks postmortem. This assessment consisted of ratings by the informant for the patient's last week of life in 3 areas—physical distress, psychological distress, and overall QOL—which were summed to create the primary outcome measure of QOL.
Archives of Internal Medicine , commentaire en libre accès, 2011