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Background
Patients with advanced, incurable cancer who understand their illness is incurable are more likely to prefer hospice care at the end of life compared with patients who believe their illness is curable. To the authors' knowledge, it is unclear whether patient‐caregiver agreement regarding perceived prognosis is associated with hospice enrollment.
Methods
The current study examined the...
Purpose It is unclear whether life-expectancy estimates of patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers are associated with patient existential, social, or emotional quality of life (QOL) or caregiver emotional QOL. Methods Patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers (n = 162 dyads) reported estimates of the chance the patient would live for 2 years or more from 0% (most pessimistic)...
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