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Pedro Emilio Perez-Cruz

Researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Publications -  46
Citations -  2091

Pedro Emilio Perez-Cruz is an academic researcher from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The author has contributed to research in topics: Palliative care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 35 publications receiving 1533 citations. Previous affiliations of Pedro Emilio Perez-Cruz include University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & Harvard University.

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Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to provide evidence that palliative care and pain relief research should be considered as a continuum of treatment for patients with life-threatening illnesses.
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Depression and Survival in Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Effects of Early Palliative Care

TL;DR: The data do not support the hypothesis that treatment of depression mediated the observed survival benefit from early palliative care, and depression predicted worse survival in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic NSCLC.
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Minimal clinically important differences in the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale in cancer patients: A prospective, multicenter study.

TL;DR: The Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) is widely used for symptom assessment in clinical and research settings and a sensitivity‐specificity approach was used to identify the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for improvement and deterioration for each of the 10 symptoms.
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Components of early outpatient palliative care consultation in patients with metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer.

TL;DR: Initial palliative care consultation near the time of diagnosis in patients with metastatic NSCLC in this intervention is nearly an hour in length and largely addresses symptom management, patient and family coping, and illness understanding and education.