ZThe single most important predictive factor in cancer is performance status and functional ability [ - if patients are spending more than 50% of their time in bed/lying down, prognosis is estimated to be about 3 months or less.

GSF is a practical and evidence-based end of life care service improvement programme. Our aim is to enable a ‘gold standard’ of care for everyone, with any condition, in any setting, given by any care provider, at any time in a person’s last years of life.

What is the GSF Proactive Identification Guidance tool (PIG)? Download it here and see how to use it.

According to GSF criteria, patients were labelled as positive GSF status when they met at least one general criterion and two heart disease criteria; furthermore, traditional cardiovascular risk scores (the Global Registry for Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) score and the Age, Creatinine and Ejection Fraction (ACEF) score) were calculated and ...

Apr 18, 2012 · Identifying End of Life using GSF. Defining a positive GSF status as one general criterion plus two heart disease criteria identified 40 (23%) patients as approaching EoL. During follow-up, GSF positive patients were more likely to die …

GSF is a practical systematic, evidence-based approach that enables generalist frontline care providers better care for all people in their final phase of life. The aim is to enable a ‘gold standard’ of care to help people live well before they die, and …

patients’ performance status in 10% decrements from 100% (healthy) to 0% (death) based on five observable parameters: ambulation, ability to do activities, self-care, food/fluid intake, and consciousness level. Instructions on how to use the PPSv2 can be found at: www.victoriahospice.org/health-professionals/clinical-tools

A positive GSF was associated with higher rate of non-cardiovascular events (22.7% vs 6.7%; p=0.03) at 3 months and higher rates of both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular events (36% vs 16.4%; p=0.04 and 27.3% vs 6.7%; p=0.009, respectively) at 12 months.

• Deteriorating performance status and functional ability due to metastatic cancer, multi-morbidities or not amenable to treatment – if spending more than 50% of time in bed/lying down, prognosis estimated in months • Persistent symptoms despite optimal palliative oncology. More

Dec 1, 2019 · GSF is a systematic, evidence based approach to optimising care for all patients approaching the end of life, delivered by generalist frontline care providers. Aim To enable the earlier identification of people nearing the end of their life who may need additional supportive care and advance care planning discussions