Grants And Publications

Project:

Toward better end stage cancer prognosticating: the Monash Prognostic Indicator

Institution:

Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health

Year Of Grant:

2012

Illness/Condition:

Palliative Care,

Researcher:

Kate Jackson

Description:

To improve prognostication in patients with advanced incurable cancer.

Publications:

To date several presentations have been made on the preliminary data.
A publication will be forthcoming

Progress:

While the collection of data from patients has been quite straightforward, the collating and analysis has been more time consuming than originally estimated so the project will need another 12 months for completion.

However even prior to completion, the project has attracted attention and significantly promoted palliative medicine.