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Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS)

	Author(s)
Higginson Irene J

Purpose

Pathology:

Generic

Disease:

All

[ Neoplasms, advanced non-cancer conditions including MS, heart failure, COPD, neurological conditions, renal failure ]

Objective:

1) To help clinical practitioners meet people's palliative care needs. 2) For use in research studies to monitor outcomes

Population:

Terminal patients

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of end of Life

Mode of administration:

Nurse-rated
Physician-rated
Self-administered

[ Staff version: Nurse-rated or Physician-rated /
Patient version: Self-administered /
Caregiver version: Self-administered ]

Number of items:

Staff version:13; Patient version:12; Caregiver version: 12

Existence of database:

Time recall:

Over the last 3 days, although adaptations can cover 1 day, 1 week or 2 weeks

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the UK

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

Staff version:

Cambodian	Italian	Spanish	Urdu
Dutch	Portuguese	Spanish for Dominican Republic
German (Austria and Germany)	Punjabi

Patient version:

Cambodian	German (Austria and Germany)	Portuguese	Spanish for Dominican Republic
Dutch	Italian	Spanish

Last update: January 2008
Last update in collaboration with the author: January 2008