Thoughts of self-harm and depression as prognostic factors in palliative care patients
▸Lloyd-Williams M, Payne S, Reeve J, et al. J Affect Disord 2014;166:324–9.
This longitudinal study
based in 20 palliative care day units in England, explored whether
depression and patient reports
of thoughts of self-harm were
prognostic factors for survival in 629 patients with advanced cancer.
Baseline measures were
completed on all these patients,
with 494 patients (79%), 405 (64%) and 349 (55%) completing follow-up at
8, 16 and 24 weeks,
respectively. Higher …
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