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The utility of a shortened palliative care screening tool to predict death within 12 months – a prospective observational study in two south African hospitals with a high HIV burden

BACKGROUND: Timely identification of people who are at risk of dying is an important first component of end-of-life care. Clinicians often fail to identify such patients, thus trigger tools have been developed to assist in this process. We aimed to evaluate the performance of a identification tool (...

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Autores principales: Raubenheimer, Peter J., Day, Cascia, Abdullah, Faried, Manning, Katherine, Cupido, Clint, Peter, Jonny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6854790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31722691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-019-0487-5