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Palliative Care and the ICU

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Post Palliative Performance Score use in ICU setting
Author: jward10450
Date: Feb 7, 2011 4:53 pm
We have just starting a pilot tracking PPS in our inpatient consultation service with the hope to tie scores to survival data and benchmark against some of the published works using this tool in the cancer population. Obviously this does not translate well to the ICU patient. What predictive tool do you all recommend, APACHE II? Others?

Thanks in advance!
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Re:Palliative Performance Score use in ICU setting (by TomSmith on 02/09/2011)
We use PPS. We don't use anything else. Sorry.

Thomas J. Smith, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine and Palliative Care Research
Palliative Care Leadership Center
VCU-Massey Cancer Center
Richmond, VA

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