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Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog
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- EOL discussions and EOL outcomes
- JAMA (huzzah) has published what will likely be remembered as the core publication out of the Coping with Cancer Study (CWCS)(see our posts here, here, and here for more). This analysis looks at the association between end-of-life (EOL) discussions and several outcomes including patient mental health and aspects of EOL care. Briefly: the CWCS was a prospective, multi-institutional (several cancer centers in Northeast US and Texas) cohort study of advanced cancer patients (metastatic; 'failed' first line chemotherapy) and their family caregivers. It involved an intensive psychosocial assessment including disease understanding at baseline; patients were followed over time and bereavement outcomes were measured in family members of those who died (most ~6 months post-loss). This paper is based on the ~320 who died by the time the analysis was done (total enrollment was a little over 600): median time from enrollment to death was 4.4 months.
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