Quality of life assessment and outcome of palliative care

Eugenio Paci; Guido Miccinesi; Franco Toscani; Marcello Tamburini; Cinzia Brunelli; Massimo Constantini; Carlo Peruselli; Paola Di Giulio; Michele Gallucci; Julia Addington-Hall; Irene J. Higginson

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Quality of life assessment and outcome of palliative care

Eugenio Paci, Guido Miccinesi, Franco Toscani, Marcello Tamburini, Cinzia Brunelli, Massimo Constantini, Carlo Peruselli, Paola Di Giulio, Michele Gallucci, Julia Addington-Hall, Irene J. Higginson

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Quality of life (QoL) assessment is crucial for the evaluation of palliative care outcome. In this paper, our methodological approach was based on the creation of summary measures. Fifty-eight Palliative Care Units (PCUs) in Italy participated in the study. Each PCU randomly selected patients to be 'evaluated' among the consecutively 'registered' patients. At baseline (first visit) and each week the patient was asked to fill in a QoL questionnaire, the Therapy Impact Questionnaire (TIQ). Short-survivors (

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	179-188
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume	21
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0885-3924(01)00263-9
Publication status	Published - 2001

Keywords

Outcome
Palliative care
Quality of life

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Clinical Neurology
Neurology
Nursing(all)

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Quality of life assessment and outcome of palliative care. / Paci, Eugenio; Miccinesi, Guido; Toscani, Franco; Tamburini, Marcello; Brunelli, Cinzia; Constantini, Massimo; Peruselli, Carlo; Di Giulio, Paola; Gallucci, Michele; Addington-Hall, Julia; Higginson, Irene J.

In: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2001, p. 179-188.

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