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Their last 6 months
— suffering and survival of end-stage dementia patients | | Author(s) | Bechor Zvi Aminoff, Abraham Adunsky |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 35, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 597-600 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Longitudinal surveys ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Possible inter-relations between the Mini Suffering State Examination (MSSE) scale and survival was studied in 252 Israeli end-stage dementia patients with a 6-month follow-up period, conducted in a Division of Geriatric Medicine of a general hospital. Compared with patients surviving 6 or months, those dying within 6 months were significantly older. Mean survival time was 57.73 days for 29 patients with low MSSE scores, 44.7 days for 53 with intermediate MSSE scores, and 27.54 days for 52 with high MSSE scores. Documentation of a high-suffering level by the MSSE scale helps in identifying end-stage dementia patients expected to benefit from enrolment into a palliative setting. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061211224 A |
| Classmark | EA: CX: LV: 3J: 7H6 |
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