Table 2. Predictors of Quality-of-Life Trajectories for 127 Decedents.

	Estimate	p
Estimated Fixed Effects
Estimated QOL* on Day of Death
QOL if enrolled the mean number of days before death†	4.967674	<0.001
Addition to Death-Day QOL if patient had cancer	-0.126999	0.791
Alteration in Death-Day QOL for each 1-day increase in length of patient's enrollment-to-death period	0.001048	0.309
Change in QOL Each Day Leading Up to Death
Per-day change in QOL if enrolled mean days before death	-0.003593	0.001
Additional per-day change in QOL if patient had cancer	-0.005306	0.003
Alteration in per-day change in QOL (slope) for each 1-day increase in length of patient's enrollment-to-death period	0.000009	<0.001
Estimated Random Effects	Std Dev	p
QOL on Day of Death	2.25933	<0.001
Per-day Change	0.00600	<0.001
Within Patients	1.49854	---

^*QOL = single-item global quality-of-life rating (range = 0 [no quality of life] to 10 [perfect quality of life])

^†The variable measuring days between enrollment and death was centered on its grand mean for the sample (238.04).