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The Accuracy of Physicians' Clinical Predictions of Survival in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Koji Amano, Isseki Maeda, Satofumi Shimoyama, Takuya Shinjo, Hiroto Shirayama, Takeshi Yamada, Ryo Yamamoto, Naoki Yamamoto, Hideki Shishido, Mie Shimizu,

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · 2015 · 89 citations · 30 references

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An Introduction to Medical Statistics.

Journal of the American Medical Association · 1931 · 2.1K citations

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Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study Commentary: Why do doctors overestimate? Commentary: Prognoses should be based on proved indices not intuition

Nicholas A. Christakis · BMJ · 2000 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Trends in the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care Near the End of Life

Craig C. Earle, Bridget A. Neville, Mary Beth Landrum et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2004 · 995 citations

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The Palliative Prognostic Index: a scoring system for survival prediction of terminally ill cancer patients

Tatsuya Morita, Junichi Tsunoda, Satoshi Inoue et al. · Supportive Care in Cancer · 1999 · 712 citations

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Communicating With Realism and Hope: Incurable Cancer Patients' Views on the Disclosure of Prognosis

Rebecca Hagerty, Phyllis Butow, Elizabeth Lobb et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2005 · 588 citations · Full text

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