PURPOSE To establish consensus among palliative care researchers on the priorities for prognostication research. METHODS A nominal group technique was employed involving palliative care researchers attending a workshop within a scientific meeting on prognostication. Participants worked in small facilitated groups to generate future research questions which were amalgamated and rated according...

It is practically impossible to discuss the problem of bioterrorism (BT) and to develop effective programs of decreasing the losses and expenses suffered by the society from the BT acts without evaluation of the threat and prognosis of consequences based on research and empiric data. Stained international situation following the act of terrorism (attack on the USA) on September 11, 2001, makes ...

BACKGROUND Accurate estimation of favorable neurological survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest could provide critical information for physicians, patients, and families. METHODS Within the Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation registry, we identified 42,957 patients from 551 hospitals admitted between January 2000 and October 2009 who were successfully resuscitated from an in-hospital car...

Neuroendocrine tumours (NET) are clinically challenging due to their unpredictable behaviour. Nomograms, grading and staging systems are predictive tools with multiple roles in clinical practice, including patient prognostication. The NET nomogram allocates scores for various clinicopathological parameters, calculating percentage estimates for 5- and 10-year disease-specific survival of patient...

AIMS (123)I meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) imaging has been extensively used for prognostication in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The purpose of this study was to create mortality risk charts for short-term (2 years) and long-term (5 years) prediction of cardiac mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS Using a pooled database of 1322 CHF patients, multivariate analysis, including (123)I-M...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review the accuracy of physicians' clinical predictions of survival in terminally ill cancer patients. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Library, Medline (1996-2000), Embase, Current Contents, and Cancerlit databases as well as hand searching. STUDY SELECTION Studies were included if a physician's temporal clinical prediction of survival (CPS) and the actual survival (AS) fo...

Actuality of research of the methods of bankruptcy prognostication of the enterprise is based on the following – in Latvia until now there is not the method of calculation of coefficients debugged and adapted to the Latvian terms for prognostication of bankruptcy. The estimation of probability of bankruptcy is made on the basis of the real standards, which exist in the world practice, but does ...