David Currow
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A collection of research materials by Professor David Currow
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Refining a Checklist for Reporting Patient Populations and Service Characteristics in Hospice and Palliative Care Research
(Elsevier, 2012-03-21)Context and Objective Diagnoses and prognoses vary widely across sub-populations of people referred to specialist palliative care services; variations also exist in the way these services are configured. These variations ... -
The Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) scale: a revised scale for contemporary palliative care clinical practice [ISRCTN81117481]
(2005)Background : The Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) is a gold standard scale. The Thorne-modified KPS (TKPS) focuses on community-based care and has been shown to be more relevant to palliative care settings than the ... -
Bereavement help-seeking following an 'expected' death: a cross-sectional randomised face-to-face population survey
(2008)Background : This study examines the prevalence and nature of bereavement help-seeking among the population who experienced an "expected" death in the five years before their survey response. Such whole population data ... -
Handheld computers for data entry: high tech has its problems too
(BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com, 2007-02-20)Background The use of handheld computers in medicine has increased in the last decade, they are now used in a variety of clinical settings. There is an underlying assumption that electronic data capture is more accurate ... -
Improving search filter development: a study of palliative care literature
(BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com, 2007-06-28)Background It is difficult to systematically search for literature relevant to palliative care in general medical journals. A previously developed search filter for use on OVID Medline validated using a gold standard set ... -
Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial of sustained release morphine for the management of refractory dyspnoea.
(BMJ Publishing Group - http://bjo.bmjjournals.com/, 2003-09)
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