Current status of accurate prognostic awareness in advanced/terminally ill cancer patients: systematic review and meta-regression analysis

CH Chen, SC Kuo, ST Tang - Palliative medicine, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: No systematic meta-analysis is available on the prevalence of cancer patients'
accurate prognostic awareness and differences in accurate prognostic awareness by …

[HTML][HTML] Communicating with patients and families about illness progression and end of life: a review of studies using direct observation of clinical practice

S Ekberg, R Parry, V Land, K Ekberg, M Pino… - BMC Palliative Care, 2021 - Springer
Background There is growing recognition that a diverse range of healthcare professionals
need competence in palliative approaches to care. Effective communication is a core …

Determinants of patient-oncologist prognostic discordance in advanced cancer

R Gramling, K Fiscella, G Xing, M Hoerger… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Patients with advanced cancer often report expectations for survival that differ
from their oncologists' expectations. Whether patients know that their survival expectations …

Patients' perspectives of patient-centredness as important in musculoskeletal physiotherapy interactions: a qualitative study

MO Kidd, CH Bond, ML Bell - Physiotherapy, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To determine patients' perspectives of components of patient-centred
physiotherapy and its essential elements. DESIGN: Qualitative study using semi-structured …

[HTML][HTML] Let us talk about death: gender effects in cancer patients' preferences for end-of-life discussions

C Seifart, J Riera Knorrenschild, M Hofmann… - Supportive Care in …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Patients with advanced cancer often receive suboptimal end-of-life (EOL) care.
Particularly males with advanced cancer are more likely to receive EOL care that is more …

Why communication education is important: A third study on the centrality of the discipline's content and pedagogy

SP Morreale, JM Valenzano, JA Bauer - Communication Education, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The results of this study argue that communication, and specifically oral communication
education, is critical to students' future personal and professional success. Similar to two …

A question prompt list for patients with advanced cancer in the final year of life: development and cross-cultural evaluation

A Walczak, B Mazer, PN Butow… - Palliative …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Clinicians and patients find prognosis and end-of-life care discussions
challenging. Misunderstanding one's prognosis can contribute to poor decision-making and …

Trust as a central factor in hospice enrollment disparities among ethnic and racial minority patients: a qualitative study of interrelated and compounding factors …

G Anandarajah, MR Mennillo, S Wang… - Journal of Palliative …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Background: Disparities in end-of-life (EOL) care remain among ethnic/racial minority
populations. Choosing hospice care in the United States depends on goals-of-care …

Stronger therapeutic alliance is associated with better quality of life among patients with advanced cancer

T Thomas, A Althouse, L Sigler, R Arnold… - Psycho …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Patient–oncologist therapeutic alliance is a foundation of quality cancer care,
although there is limited research demonstrating its relationship with patient outcomes. We …

[HTML][HTML] Quality of end-of-life cancer care for medicare beneficiaries

DC Goodman, ES Fisher, CH Chang, NE Morden… - 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
More than 1.5 million cancers are diagnosed each year in the United States. 1 This
Dartmouth Atlas report examines how elderly patients with poor prognosis cancer are cared …