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Multidisciplinary Prognostication Using the Palliative Prognostic Score in an Australian Cancer Center.

Ruwani MendisWee-Kheng SooDiana ZanninoNatasha MichaelOdette Spruyt
Published in: Palliative care (2015)
This study suggests that a multidisciplinary team approach to prognostication within routine clinical practice is possible and may substitute for single clinician prediction of survival within the PaP score without detracting from its accuracy. Multidisciplinary team prognostication can assist treating teams to recognize and articulate prognosis, facilitate treatment decisions, and plan end-of-life care appropriately. PaP was less useful in the outpatient setting, given the longer survival interval of the outpatient palliative care patient group.
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