Symptom Burden and Performance Status among Community-Dwelling Patients with Serious Illness

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Bothersome symptoms change as patients' performance status worsens. Using performance status as a common language, both medical professionals and informal caregivers can monitor impending changes in symptom burden. This should inform development of community-based delivery systems to detect and manage distress in patients with palliative care needs.