Full integration of oncology and palliative care relies on the specific knowledge and skills of
two modes of care: the tumour-directed approach, the main focus of which is on treating the …

Background Prognostic accuracy in palliative care is valued by patients, carers, and
healthcare professionals. Previous reviews suggest clinicians are inaccurate at survival …

Background Access to palliative care is a key quality metric which most healthcare
organizations strive to improve. The primary challenges to increasing palliative care access …

Objectives To evaluate how often newly developed risk prediction models undergo external
validation and how well they perform in such validations. Study Design and Setting We …

Background Clinicians are inaccurate at predicting survival. The 'Surprise Question'(SQ) is a
screening tool that aims to identify people nearing the end of life. Potentially, its routine use …

Objective: To describe doctors' prognostic accuracy in terminally ill patients and to evaluate
the determinants of that accuracy. Design: Prospective cohort study Setting: Five outpatient …

Objective To systematically review the accuracy of physicians' clinical predictions of survival
in terminally ill cancer patients. Data sources Cochrane Library, Medline (1996-2000) …

Although accurate prediction of survival is essential for palliative care, few clinical methods
of determining how long a patient is likely to live have been established. To develop a …

Purpose: Providing survival estimates is important for decision making in oncology care. The
purpose of this study was to provide survival estimates for outpatients with advanced cancer …

Bleeding is a common problem in cancer patients, related to local tumor invasion, tumor
angiogenesis, systemic effects of the cancer, or anti-cancer treatments. Existing bleeds can …