Assessing the validity of the clinician-rated distress thermometer in palliative care.

Axelle Van LanderA TarotC SavanovitchB PereiraB VennatV Guastella

Published in: BMC palliative care (2019)

The first assessment gave the best results in terms of concordance between Clinician-Rated DT and Self-Reported DT. In the next assessments, the Clinician-Rated DT were less consistent with the patients' Self-Reported DT.

Keyphrases

palliative care
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
advanced cancer