Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jan 2021
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyThe effect of disclosing life expectancy information on patients' prognostic understanding: secondary outcomes from a multicenter randomized trial of a palliative chemotherapy educational intervention.
Many advanced patients with cancer have unrealistic prognostic expectations. ⋯ Offering LE information within a PC educational intervention had no effect on patients' prognostic expectations.