[The nurse-healthcare assistant partnership in a mobile pain and palliative care team].

The mission of the mobile pain and palliative care team is to improve the quality of care and comfort of patients. At Longjumeau general hospital the nurse-healthcare assistant partnership within this team enables the patient to benefit from the caregivers' two-way perspective, while allowing the professionals to share knowledge and to be stronger in the face of suffering.

Assessing 2-month clinical prognosis in hospitalized patients with advanced solid tumors.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess clinical, laboratory, and subjective (patient's preferences) prognostic factors in hospitalized patients with advanced solid tumors.

Patients And Methods: This prospective study surveyed 177 patients from two French hospitals who had not reached the stage of active dying but had an estimated survival of less than 6 months (median survival, 58 days).

Results: Univariate analysis showed that 10 of the 13 clinical and laboratory factors reported in the literature affected survival at 2 months.