Prognostic Value of Palliative Prognostic Index for Hospitalized Patients With End-of-Life Hematologic Malignancies in a Japanese University Hospital
PURPOSE Uncertainty of prognosis is one reason patients with hematologic malignancies receive aggressive therapy near end of life more often than those with advanced solid tumors. It is unknown whether end-of-life prognosis prediction models are useful for patients with hematologic malignancies, especially hospitalized patients receiving chemotherapy, because most prognostic models were developed…
