Assessing symptoms, concerns and quality of life in non-cancer patients at end of life: How concordant are patients and family proxy members?

It has become commonplace to use family caregivers as proxy responders where patients are unable to provide information about their symptoms and concerns to health care providers.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - August 1, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Thomas F. Hack, Susan E. McClement, Harvey Max Chochinov, Brenden Dufault, Wendy Johnston, Murray W. Enns, Genevieve N. Thompson, Mike Harlos, Ronald W. Damant, Clare D. Ramsey, Sara Davison, James Zacharias, David Strang, Heather J. Campbell-Enns Source Type: research