RT Journal
A1 Zonderman AB, Evans MK
T1 Improving patients' quality of life at the end of life: Comment on “factors important to patients' quality of life at the end of life”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD August 13
VO 172
IS 15
SP 1142
OP 1144
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3169
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3169
AB 
Patients and their caregivers provided various demographic, medical, and psychosocial data at enrollment in the study, and a caregiver rated QOL just before death retrospectively several weeks postmortem. This assessment consisted of ratings by the informant for the patient's last week of life in 3 areas—physical distress, psychological distress, and overall QOL—which were summed to create the primary outcome measure of QOL.