Explore the latest in end-of-life care, including studies of prognosis, advance directives, spiritual support, and more.
This cohort study evaluates whether racial bias exists in a machine learning model that identifies cancer mortality risk among patients with solid malignant tumors.
This quality improvement study evaluates the association of hospice use with a novel multidisciplinary hospice program to rapidly identify and enroll eligible patients presenting to the emergency department near the end of life.
This prognostic study assessed associations of scores on the Palliative Performance Scale with short- and long-term survival to provide updated prognosis estimates for patients with cancer and other serious illnesses.
This essay describes the experience of an oncologist in India and palliative care involving grieving families and coconuts.
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the use of termination of resuscitation rules to estimate patient survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
This cohort study assesses factors associated with family surrogates in Taiwan and their critically ill loved one’s categorization into 1 of 4 response classes based on the Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire.
This cluster randomized trial tests the independent and combined effects of clinician and patient behavioral economic implementation strategies (nudges) on completion of serious illness conversations that elicit patients’ values, goals, and care preferences.
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric oncologist gains new insight into the decision to transition from cancer-directed therapy to comfort-focused care when roles are reversed and she experiences end-of-life decision-making as a caregiver.
This cohort study evaluates the addition of a patient-centered intervention to an advance care planning process for older surgical patients.
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of developing medical forecasting skills to improve clinician/patient/family communications regarding prognosis.
This randomized clinical trial assesses whether a stepped-care model of palliative care is noninferior to early integrated palliative care based on patient-reported quality of life among patients with advanced lung cancer.
This prognostic study examines the Geriatric End-of-life Screening Tool for use in the evaluation of mortality risk in older patients presenting to the emergency department.
This cohort study evaluates how admission to safety-net hospitals is associated with in-hospital mortality, 30-day mortality, and discharge practices among patients with sepsis.
This secondary analysis of data from the EPAC randomized clinical trial examines the association of a lay health worker–led advance care planning intervention among patients with advanced stages of cancer with overall survival and end-of-life health care use and costs.
This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether a multilevel advance care planning (ACP) intervention improves clinician ACP documentation for patients with advanced genitourinary cancers compared with a clinician-level intervention only.
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