Publications by authors named "Victor Rivas-Jimenez"
This study sought to determine the survival duration of patients who underwent palliative sedation, comparing those who received prescriptions from referring physicians versus on-call physicians. It included all patients over 18 years old who died in the Palliative Care, Internal Medicine, and Oncology units at the Hospital Universitario of Jerez de la Frontera between 1 January 2019, and 31 December 2019. Various factors were analyzed, including age, gender, oncological or non-oncological disease, type of primary tumor and refractory symptoms.
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- Anemia is a common issue among cancer patients, negatively affecting their quality of life (QoL) and related symptoms, though its exact impact has been unclear due to varying definitions in past studies.
- Researchers conducted a detailed analysis using specific QoL questionnaires to assess the impact of anemia on cancer patients within a multicenter study from 2015-2018, which included 365 participants.
- Results showed that cancer patients with anemia reported significantly lower global health status and more severe symptoms compared to those without anemia, indicating a clinically and statistically worse QoL for anemia sufferers.
A Case-Control Analysis of the Impact of Venous Thromboembolic Disease on Quality of Life of Patients with Cancer: Quality of Life in Cancer (Qca) Study.
Cancers (Basel)
December 2019
Although there is published research on the impact of venous thromboembolism (VTE) on quality of life (QoL), this issue has not been thoroughly investigated in patients with cancer-particularly using specific questionnaires. We aimed to examine the impact of acute symptomatic VTE on QoL of patients with malignancies. This was a multicenter, prospective, case-control study conducted in patients with cancer either with (cases) or without (controls) acute symptomatic VTE.
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