A systematic review of measures of end-of-life care and its outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify psychometrically sound measures of outcomes in end-of-life care and to characterize their use in intervention studies.

Data sources

English language articles from 1990 to November 2005 describing measures with published psychometric data and intervention studies of end-of-life care.

Study design

Systematic review of end-of-life care literature.

Extraction methods

Two reviewers organized identified measures into 10 major domains. Eight reviewers extracted and characterized measures from intervention studies.

Principal findings

Of 24,423 citations, we extracted 200 articles that described 261 measures, accepting 99 measures. In addition to 35 measures recommended in a prior systematic review, we identified an additional 64 measures of

SUBMITTER: Mularski RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2254566 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature