Palliative Performance Scale: cross cultural adaptation and psychometric validation for Polish hospice setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measuring functional status in palliative care may help clinicians to assess a patient's prognosis, recommend adequate therapy, avoid futile or aggressive medical care, consider hospice referral, and evaluate provided rehabilitation outcomes. An optimized, widely used, and validated tool is preferable. The Palliative Performance Scale Version 2 (PPSv2) is currently one of the most commonly used performance scales in palliative settings. The aim of this study is the psychometric validation process of a Polish translation of this tool (PPSv2-Polish).

Methods

Two hundred patients admitted to a free-standing hospice were evaluated twice, on the first and third day, for test-retest reliability. In the first evaluation, two different care providers independently evaluat

SUBMITTER: Dzierzanowski T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7178730 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature