Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study

By Nicholas A. Christakis, E. Lamont. British medical journal, 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Prognostic factors in advanced cancer patients: evidence-based clinical recommendations--a study by the Steering Committee of the European Association for Palliative Care. (2005, background): “Despite this, it is the opinion of the WG that increased prognostic accuracy would assist health professionals to improve their care strategy and help patients and families to make more informed choices.(10,22,23,65) Recommendation 2.”
• Improving palliative care with deep learning (2017, background): “Several studies have shown that clinicians are generally over optimistic in their estimates of the prognoses of terminally ill patients [9] [5] [10] [11].”
• Dying in America: improving quality and honoring individual preferences near the end of life. (2015, background): “The more long-standing the physicianpatient relationship, the more likely it is that the physician will make an inaccurate, overpessimistic prediction of prognosis (Christakis and Lamont, 2000).”