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- Title
The ‘surprise’ question in advanced cancer patients: A prospective study among general practitioners.
- Authors
Moroni, Matteo; Zocchi, Donato; Bolognesi, Deborah; Abernethy, Amy; Rondelli, Roberto; Savorani, Giandomenico; Salera, Marcello; Dall’Olio, Filippo G; Galli, Giulia; Biasco, Guido
- Abstract
The article presents a study aimed to identified the prognostic accuracy by the general practitioners asking "surprise" questions about their patients. The study is conducted through a prospective cohort method on 42 of 50 randomly select general practitioners in the Bologna area of Italy between December 2011 and February 2012. The results of the study show that when general practitioners use "surprise" questions particularly for patients with cancer, the survival prognosis was high.
- Subjects
ITALY; TUMOR prognosis; CONFIDENCE intervals; FISHER exact test; LONGITUDINAL method; GENERAL practitioners; PROBABILITY theory; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); TUMORS; TUMOR classification; DATA analysis; PROPORTIONAL hazards models; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; KAPLAN-Meier estimator; ODDS ratio; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 7, p959
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216314526273