Comparing functional decline and distress from symptoms in people with thoracic life-limiting illnesses: lung cancers and non-malignant end-stage respiratory diseases.
Matilda Barnes-HarrisSamuel AllinghamDeidre MorganDiana FerreiraMiriam J JohnsonKathy EagarDavid Christopher CurrowPublished in: Thorax (2021)
In this large dataset unlike previous datasets, the pattern of functional decline was similar as was overall symptom burden. Timely access to palliative care should be based on needs not diagnoses.