TY - JOUR T1 - Articles of interest in other scholarly journals JF - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care JO - BMJ Support Palliat Care DO - 10.1136/bmjspcare-2017-001361 SP - bmjspcare-2017-001361 AU - Dr Elaine Boland Y1 - 2017/04/19 UR - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/early/2017/04/19/bmjspcare-2017-001361.abstract N2 - ▸ Button E, Chan RJ, Chambers S, et al. BMC Cancer 2017;17:213.This systematic review looked at identifying prognostic factors in the last 3 months of life that are associated with increased risk of mortality for haematological malignancy; most patients were predominantly treated with aggressive curative or life-prolonging intent. This included 28 studies; mostly were in the intensive care unit settings and retrospective. The prognostic factors were categorised into five groups, mainly: demographics; interventions (eg, vasopressor support or mechanical ventilation), physiological complications (eg, bone marrow or multiorgan failure); disease characteristics and laboratory blood values. Using the QUIPS tool, most … ER -