Estimating 1-year mortality for high-risk primary care patients using the "surprise" question

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1863-1865

  Lakin, Joshua R ^a,b   Robinson, Margaret G ^b   Bernacki, Rachelle E ^a,b   Powers, Brian W ^b,c   Block, Susan D ^a,b   Cunningham, Rebecca ^b   Obermeyer, Ziad ^b,c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX; SURPRISE QUESTIONNAIRE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 85011260750     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5928     Document Type: Letter

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