SynthesisInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2017
Palliative care and prognosis in COPD: a systematic review with a validation cohort.
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- Palliative Care Initiation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Prognosis-Based, Symptoms-Based or Needs-Based?International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2020Pooled it
- Prognostic models for outcome prediction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review and critical appraisal.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019Pooled it
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A narrative synthesis of its hallmarks for palliative care clinicians.European journal of internal medicine · 2025Review
- The Cross-Sectional Area of Erector Spinae Muscles Obtained from Chest CT Is an Independent Predictor of Death in COPD.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Article
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- Facilitators and barriers to the delivery of palliative care to patients with Parkinson's disease: a qualitative study of the perceptions and experiences of stakeholders using the socio-ecological model.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Caring for patients with advanced COPD: beyond the inhalers….Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Review
- Development and validation of a prediction index for recent mortality in advanced COPD patients.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2022Article
- Spanish Nurses' Knowledge about Palliative Care. A National Online Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Communicating uncertainty: contrasting the communication experiences of patients with advanced COPD and incurable lung cancer.Family practice · 2021Article
- Palliative Care and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Readmissions: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2021Review
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer: access to palliative care, emergency room visits and hospital deaths.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2021Article
- Preferences for Predictive Model Characteristics among People Living with Chronic Lung Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020Article
- Low uptake of palliative care for COPD patients within primary care in the UK.The European respiratory journal · 2018Article
- The potential of palliative care for patients with respiratory diseases.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2017Article
- Letter to the editor regarding: "Development of the ProPal-COPD tool to identify patients with COPD for proactive palliative care".International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017Article
- A narrative review of proactive palliative care models for people with COPD.Therapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseReview
- Towards a Consensus on Advanced COPD: A Call for Definition and Management.Open respiratory archivesArticle
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Current recommendations to consider initiation of palliative care (PC) in COPD patients are often based on an expected poor prognosis. However, this approach is not evidence-based, and which and when COPD patients should start PC is controversial. We aimed to assess whether current suggested recommendations for initiating PC were sufficiently reliable. We identified prognostic variables proposed in the literature for initiating PC; then, we ascertained their relationship with 1-year mortality, and finally, we validated their utility in our cohort of 697 patients hospitalized for COPD exacerbation. From 24 articles of 499 screened, we selected 20 variables and retrieved 48 original articles in which we were able to calculate the relationship between each of them and 1-year mortality. The number of studies where 1-year mortality was detailed for these variables ranged from 9 for previous hospitalizations or FEV
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