Opinion Statement In the advanced cancer setting, patients, families, and clinicians are often
confronted with an uncertain future regarding treatment outcomes and survival. Greater …

Purpose: Prognostic uncertainty is a major challenge for cancer of unknown primary (CUP).
Current models limit a meaningful patient-provider dialogue. We aimed to establish a …

Context Older adults with advanced cancer face uncertainty related to their disease and
treatment. Objectives To evaluate the associations of uncertainty with psychological health …

Context Psychological distress is associated with adverse health outcomes in serious illness
and magnified among patients of low socioeconomic status. Aspects of one's culture, such …

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

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

Background: The benefits of hospice for patients with advanced cancer are well established.
Short hospice length of service (LOS) is a marker of poor quality care and patient and family …

Conversation has been a primary means for the exchange of information since ancient
times. Understanding patterns of information flow in conversations is a critical step in …

Background Understanding uncertainty in participatory decision-making requires scientific
attention to interaction between what actually happens when patients, families and clinicians …

Inzwischen gilt es in den meisten, wenn nicht gar in allen medizinischen Subdisziplinen als
unbestrittene Tatsache, dass Gesprächsführung eine elementare Komponente der …