Could Better Predictions Improve End-of-Life Care?

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Channel: Yale School of Management · 2018 · Education

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KERIN BESS ADELSON, MD 
DONALD LEE,
ROGERIO C. LILENBAUM, MD
EDIEAL J. PINKER

A team of Yale researchers has developed a statistical tool that can improve predictions of whether patients with advanced cancer are likely to die in the near term. Their analysis suggests that better understanding of the end of life could promote patient welfare by transferring more people from aggressive interventions to hospice care.

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