Importance Serious illness conversations (SICs) between oncology clinicians and patients
are associated with improved quality of life and may reduce aggressive end-of-life care …

Importance Serious illness conversations (SICs) are structured conversations between
clinicians and patients about prognosis, treatment goals, and end-of-life preferences …

Importance Machine learning algorithms could identify patients with cancer who are at risk of
short-term mortality. However, it is unclear how different machine learning algorithms …

PURPOSE: Patients with metastatic cancer benefit from advance care planning (ACP)
conversations. We aimed to improve ACP using a computer model to select high-risk …

Importance Earlier clinician-patient conversations about patients' values, goals, and
preferences in serious illness (ie, serious illness conversations) are associated with better …

Background/objective Oncology guidelines recommend earlier communication with patients
about prognosis and goals‐of‐care in serious illness. However, current evidence leaves …

Context There is ongoing discourse about the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on
end-of-life (EOL) care. No meta-analysis exists to clarify ACP's impact on patients with …

PURPOSE: Patients with advanced cancer often have a poor understanding of cancer
incurability, which correlates with more aggressive treatment near the end of life (EOL). We …

PURPOSE: Guidelines recommend earlier advance care planning discussions focused on
goals and values (serious illness communication) among oncology patients. We conducted …

Background: This study was conducted to examine whether a longitudinal advance care
planning (ACP) intervention facilitates concordance between the preferred and received life …