Can the Spitzer Quality of Life Index help to reduce prognostic uncertainty in terminal care?

Measuring the quality of life of cancer patients

1981 • 1,562 citations

The Karnofsky performance status scale: An examination of its reliability and validity in a research setting

1984 • 1,030 citations

Who should measure quality of life, the doctor or the patient?

1988 • 931 citations

Evaluation of patients with advanced cancer using the karnofsky performance status

1980 • 874 citations

Clinical Symptoms and Length of Survival in Patients With Terminal Cancer

1988 • 328 citations

Quality of Life Index for Patients with Cancer

1983 • 299 citations

Last days: A study of the quality of life of terminally ill cancer patients

1986 • 224 citations

Accuracy of Predictions of Survival in Later Stages of Cancer

1972 • 209 citations

PROGNOSTIC UNCERTAINTY IN TERMINAL CARE: CAN THE KARNOFSKY INDEX HELP?

1985 • 200 citations

Predicting Life Span for Applicants to

1988 • 181 citations

Psychosocial correlates of cancer survival: a subsequent report 3 to 8 years after cancer diagnosis.

1988 • 127 citations

Quality of Life Measurements in Patients with Malignant Disease: A Review

1986 • 124 citations

Cancer patients' quality of life over the disease course: Lessons from the real world

1987 • 92 citations

Quality of life of cancer patients at different stages in the disease trajectory

1987 • 60 citations

Terminal care: present services and future priorities.

1981 • 50 citations

Inaccurate predictions of life expectancy. Dilemmas and opportunities

1988 • 29 citations

Referral and survival of patients accepted by a terminal care support team.

1984 • 26 citations