How do palliative care doctors recognise imminently dying patients? A judgement analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify a group of palliative care doctors who perform well on a prognostic test and to understand how they make their survival predictions.

Design

Prospective observational study and two cross-sectional online studies.

Setting

Phase I: an online prognostic test, developed from a prospective observational study of patients referred to palliative care. Phase II: an online judgement task consisting of 50 hypothetical vignettes.

Participants

All members of the Association of Palliative Medicine (APM) were eligible (n=~1100). 99 doctors completed the prognostic test and were included in the phase I analysis. The top 20% were invited to participate in phase II; 14/19 doctors completed the judgement task and were included in the phase II analysis.

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SUBMITTER: White N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6254495 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature