Experience in the use of the palliative care outcome scale

Abstract

The POS is an outcome measure tool designed to assess physical, psychological, practical and existential aspects of quality of life. It may be useful in identifying problems in individual patients and directing care to address these needs.

The Influence of Age on the Likelihood of Receiving End-of-Life Care Consistent with Patient Treatment Preferences

“…17 Previous studies show physicians of elderly advanced cancer patients can be inconsistent in their understanding of patients' treatment preference. [26][27][28][29] Older aged patients wanting life-prolonging care and young patients not wanting it, challenges the societal norms that a young persons' death is unacceptable relative to the acceptability of an older person's death. In this study, treatment differed by patient preference and age despite adjusting for confounders like Karnofsky and Charlson comorbidity.…”

Effectiveness of complex interventions focused on quality-of-life assessment to improve palliative care patients’ outcomes: A systematic review

“…34 They also indicated a significant improvement in symptom distress 38 especially for pain, fatigue, well-being, and insomnia 36 and in issues that were important for the patients such as pain, other symptoms, anxiety, and patient-perceived family anxiety. 37 Differences in changes in QoL within groups were statistically significant for symptoms, function, and overall QoL, 32 and for two psychological constructs: feeling of frustration and worry about pain. 35 It was not the purpose of this systematic review to examine palliative treatments delivered to patients as a consequence of QoL assessment; however, our results reinforce the need to incorporate patient's perspective to PC teams' discussions both to inform their work and to plan and deliver interventions according to patient's priorities, preferences, and values.…”

“…One experimental study out of three 30 and six observational studies out of seven did not report how sample size or power was determined. 32,[34][35][36][37][38] The observational studies were mostly suffered from limited number of subjects and observations (dropouts); only one study was retrospective in design. 35 All of the observational studies used convenience samples 32,33,[35][36][37][38] except for Jocham et al 34 than randomly selected participants.…”

Perceptions of anxiety in lung cancer patients and their support network

“…Individual questions and the summary score of POS have been shown to be valid (content, consensus, face and construct validity) and reliable (internal consistency and test/re-test reliability) in a multicentre study encompassing inpatient, outpatient and community care settings [16]. POS has been adapted for local needs in a variety of settings and in this study was applied in the ambulatory out-patient setting [16,17,23,43]. POS asks patients to rate how different supportive care issues have affected them over the previous 3 days.…”