title: Retrospective assessment of objective prognostic score in terminally ill Korean patients with cancer.
abstract: We conducted a retrospective study by reviewing the medical records of 104 patients to assess the usefulness of the objective prognostic score (OPS) in an independent population of Korea. The median survival time (±standard error) of the high OPS group (≥3) was 9.0 ± 1.31 days and that of the low OPS group (<3) was 26.0 ± 3.3 days. The former was significantly shorter than the latter (P < .001). Only delirium (hazard ratio 1.751, P = .032) was related to shorter survival time independent of the OPS. This study demonstrates that the OPS is a valid and useful prognostic tool for predicting survival in terminally ill Korean patients with cancer, and that inclusion of delirium into the OPS may improve its prognostic value.
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Family Medicine, Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.
authors.forename: Seok-Joon
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Jin-Gyu
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Jong-Sung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung-Soo
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Samyong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis
keywords: assessment; cancer; palliative care; prognostic score; survival; validation