Publications by authors named "Valerie Lauwers"
Article Synopsis
- Some patients with serious blood diseases have big questions about life and their situation.
- Caregivers, who usually aren’t trained for these kinds of talks, still need to support these patients during such tough times.
- The goal of the research project is to create a way to help patients emotionally and spiritually with their concerns.
Background: The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) is a well-established tool to assess lower extremity physical performance status. Its predictive ability for all-cause mortality has been sparsely reported, but with conflicting results in different subsets of participants. The aim of this study was to perform a meta-analysis investigating the relationship between SPPB score and all-cause mortality.
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