Associations between accurate prognostic understanding and end‐of‐life care preferences and its correlates among Taiwanese terminally ill cancer patients surveyed in 2011–2012

Abstract

Accurately understanding prognosis is associated with fewer preferences for life-sustaining treatments and is correlated with both patient and institutional characteristics. Interventions should be developed to improve accurate prognostic understanding, thus facilitating informed EOL-care decisions that may limit the use of aggressive interventions.