ReviewCancers2023
Vital Signs in Palliative Care: A Scoping Review.
Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07512505 (Remote Vital Sign Monitoring in Palliative Care - VITAL-PC), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Remote Vital Sign Monitoring in Palliative Care - VITAL-PC
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Wireless patches for continuous vital sign monitoring, symptoms and medication at the end-of-life in the palliative care unit: A prospective observational study.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2026Observational
- The use of wearable sensor technology to enhance supportive care in hospitalized palliative patients (Support trial): a prospective preliminary pilot study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- The Organization of Vital Signs for Pattern Recognition.Medical science educator · 2025Article
- Evaluation of a Telemonitoring System Using Electronic National Early Warning Scores for Patients Receiving Medical Home Care: Pilot Implementation Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
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3 authors.
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Abstract
Vital signs are routinely measured in secondary healthcare settings and can be used to detect clinical problems, guide treatment, and monitor response to treatment. Vital signs are less frequently measured in palliative care settings. Reasons for this are unclear. This scoping review aimed to assess the generic use of vital signs in palliative care, and its role in prognostication for adult patients with cancer receiving palliative care. Medline, Embase, and CINAHL were searched for articles involving adult patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care who had their vital signs measured. Twenty-six articles were identified in which one or a combination of vital signs, with or without other clinical parameters, was used to prognosticate for patients. An additional three articles investigated the generic use of vital signs in patients with advanced cancer. There was significant heterogeneity between identified studies, with some indication that changes in vital signs may indicate that a patient is close to death. However, other studies suggested that patients may maintain normal vital signs until the time of death. Further studies are needed to explore whether abnormal vital signs may be used as a prognostic indicator for patients with cancer receiving palliative care.
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