Background: Communication about prognosis is a key ingredient of effective palliative care.
When patients with advanced cancer develop increased prognostic understanding, there is …

Background: Despite the importance of accurate prognostic understanding in patients with
advanced cancer, there is little consensus around how to conceptualize and measure the …

Objective To explore how patients with advanced cancer, their families, and palliative care
clinicians communicate about existential experience during palliative care conversations …

CONTEXT: Palliative care (PC) consultations result in improved patient understanding of
prognosis and better quality of life, yet the content and processes of prognosis …

Background: Prognosis conversations are complex phenomena of substantial importance to
palliative care (PC), yet these remain poorly understood. This study empirically identifies …

Background: A primary barrier to physician disclosure of terminal prognosis is concern that
patients will lose hope. Inpatient palliative care (IPC) teams are especially posed to mediate …

Background: Conversations with seriously ill patients about their values and goals have
been associated with reduced distress, a better quality of life, and goal-concordant care near …

The study of prognostic understanding is imperative as the trend toward individualized
medicine continues. However, without guidelines for discussing prognosis, palliative care …

Increasing evidence demonstrates the benefits of early end-of-life care discussions with
patients with life-threatening illness and their families. However, these conversations often …

Research Question: How does the process of engagement and integration of sources of
information outside patient–physician interaction affect how individuals with cancer interpret …