A reliability and validity study of the Palliative Performance Scale
Open Access
- 4 August 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Palliative Care
- Vol. 7 (1) , 10
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-684x-7-10
Abstract
The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) was first introduced in1996 as a new tool for measurement of performance status in palliative care. PPS has been used in many countries and has been translated into other languages.Keywords
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