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

Background End-of-life (EOL) conversations in hospital should serve to give patients the
opportunity to consider future treatment options and help them clarify their values and …

ObjectivesThe aim of this article is to review and synthesize the evidence on end-of-life in
burn intensive care units. MethodsSystematic scoping review: Preferred Reporting Items for …

Conversations about goals of care with the patient and family are a critical component of
advanced practice in oncology. However, there are often inadequate team structures …

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

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

Background: Systematic measurement of conversational features in the natural clinical
setting is essential to better understand, disseminate, and incentivize high quality serious …

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

Background Understanding the characteristics of communication that foster patient-centered
outcomes amid serious illness are essential for the science of palliative care. However …

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