An online randomised controlled trial of prognosticating imminent death in advanced cancer patients: Clinicians give greater weight to advice from a prognostic algorithm than from another clinician with a different profession.
Andrea BruunNicola WhiteLinda J M OostendorpVictoria VickerstaffAdam J L HarrisChristopher TomlinsonSteven BlochPatrick Charles StonePublished in: Cancer medicine (2022)
Clinicians adjusted their prognostic estimates more when advice was perceived to come from a prognostic algorithm than from another clinician. Research is needed to understand how clinicians make prognostic decisions and how algorithms are used in clinical practice.