Importance Patients with advanced cancer often report expectations for survival that differ
from their oncologists' expectations. Whether patients know that their survival expectations …

Context Maximizing value in palliative care requires continued development and
standardization of communication quality indicators. Objectives To describe the basic …

Objective We examined whether conversations involving Black or Latino patients with
advanced cancer differ in the presence or characteristics of prognosis communication …

Background: Prognostic uncertainty is common in advanced cancer and frequently
addressed during palliative care consultation, yet we know little about its impact on quality of …

Context Clinicians frequently overestimate survival time in serious illness. Objective The
objective of this study was to understand the frequency of overestimation in palliative care …

Background: It is unknown whether telemedicine-delivered palliative care (tele-PC) supports
emotionally responsive patient–clinician interactions. Objectives: We conducted a mixed …

Background: Clinical decisions for seriously ill older patients with surgical emergencies are
highly complex. Measuring the benefits of burdensome treatments in this context is fraught …

Context Advancing the science of serious illness communication requires methods for
measuring characteristics of conversations in large studies. Understanding which …

Context: Prognosis communication is one hypothesized mechanism by which effective
palliative care (PC) promotes preference-concordant treatment near end of life (EOL), but …

Objective Serious illness conversations are complex clinical narratives that remain poorly
understood. Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers new approaches for identifying …